- Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Guy Hoffman
- Directors: Claude Chabrol
- Writers: Frédéric Grendel, Hervé Bromberger, Jean-Marie Fritère, Odile Barski
- Producers: Denis Héroux, Eugène Lépicier
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
- Language French
- Subtitles: English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Koch Lorber Films
- DVD Release Date: 8 May 2007
- Run Time: 124 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000NDFI3S
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 78,228 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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I first saw "Violette" soon after it was first released in France in 1978 (yes, I was much younger then). I watched the film at least three more times between then and 1980; and a couple more times after that. Today, almost three decades later, I still think "Violette" is Claude Chabrol's best contribution to cinema, and one of the greatest non-action movies of all time. Stunning -- a masterpiece.
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Claude Chabrol is one of the five original Cahier du Cinéma critics - together with Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut - who eventually became a Nouvelle Vague auteur. Violette Nozière is his 1978 French crime film starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran; in minor roles Dora Doll and Bernadette Lafont. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men. The film had over one million admissions in France.
Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings.
Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from them. On this pretext, she tricks them into taking "medicine" that is actually poison, killing her father; her mother, however, survives, and Violette is arrested and charged with murder. She defends herself by alleging that her father had molested her.
Like in many of his ninety films, Chabrol is more interested in the workings of the bourgeoisie and zeitgeist of his pieces than some seemingly essential details - like whether Violette is simply lying or telling a half-truth in court. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die by guillotine, but in a voiceover at the end, Claude Chabrol tells us that her sentence was commuted by degrees by both Maréchal Pétain and finally General de Gaulle, to the point that she ultimately left prison, married, and had five children.
Like in other of his films, Chabrol's abrupt use of flashbacks throughout the film seems to inhibit that all details are meticulously recounted - the flashbacks are mainly used to get scenes charged with prejudice and revengeful hatred of the general populace, to throw a spanner in the works of systematic thinking, and to point at the emotional component in any official sanction. A reminder that honesty and truth are only skin deep and get corrupted at the slightest occasion. Cynically, if she later had five children, Mlle Nozière has obviously not been found guilty...
The film was entered into the main competition at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress. At the César Awards, Stéphane Audran was awarded Best Supporting Actress. The film was also nominated in three other categories: Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert), Best Music (Pierre Jansen) and Best Production Design (Jacques Brizzio).
10 March 2012
63uk Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol (1978, 124')
Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings.
Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from them. On this pretext, she tricks them into taking "medicine" that is actually poison, killing her father; her mother, however, survives, and Violette is arrested and charged with murder. She defends herself by alleging that her father had molested her.
Like in many of his ninety films, Chabrol is more interested in the workings of the bourgeoisie and zeitgeist of his pieces than some seemingly essential details - like whether Violette is simply lying or telling a half-truth in court. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die by guillotine, but in a voiceover at the end, Claude Chabrol tells us that her sentence was commuted by degrees by both Maréchal Pétain and finally General de Gaulle, to the point that she ultimately left prison, married, and had five children.
Like in other of his films, Chabrol's abrupt use of flashbacks throughout the film seems to inhibit that all details are meticulously recounted - the flashbacks are mainly used to get scenes charged with prejudice and revengeful hatred of the general populace, to throw a spanner in the works of systematic thinking, and to point at the emotional component in any official sanction. A reminder that honesty and truth are only skin deep and get corrupted at the slightest occasion. Cynically, if she later had five children, Mlle Nozière has obviously not been found guilty...
The film was entered into the main competition at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress. At the César Awards, Stéphane Audran was awarded Best Supporting Actress. The film was also nominated in three other categories: Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert), Best Music (Pierre Jansen) and Best Production Design (Jacques Brizzio).
10 March 2012
63uk Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol (1978, 124')
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Based upon a true story, an impoverished young girl, Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert), lives in a suffocating little flat in Paris with her parents. She habitually sneaks out of her home to engage in sexually promiscuous behavior. She has loving parents. Her father and mother are sweet, affectionate, simple people. Her father, Baptiste, played by Jean Carmet is a retired railroad engineer. His greatest joy is simply playing cards with his wife, Germaine(played by Stephane Audran), with Violette in attendance.
Unknown to her parents, at the ripe age of 18, Violette keeps a room in another part of Paris for liaisons with young men as a prostitute. Violette gets syphilis from an unknown client. She discovers from a medical student that the disease can be inherited and is able to convince her parents that it has happened in her case. Her parents never consult the doctor who made the diagnosis. This would be incredible except that this movie is based upon a true story and they obviously prefer their daughter's version of the truth more than finding out for themselves.
Violette eventually falls desperately in love with a young man she meets in a bar named Jean Dabin (Jean-Francois Garreaud). Her "love" for this handsome yet unambitious young man finally unleashes the psychopathy which she has manifested with smaller bad acts earlier in the movie. It leads her to use her earnings as a prostitute to buy him suits, watches, and has her aspire to marry him. She even steals her father's ring to give it to him as a present. Dabin takes all of the bounty Violette provides him but remains totally emotionally uninvolved, leaving for the countryside.
While Dabin is gone Violette resolves that the only way to have him is to kill her parents and steal their savings. Violette uses packets of medicine supposedly prescribed by the doctor to treat the family's non-existent disease. In fact she is poisoning the parents. She engages in a grisly sociopathic feast after her attempted killing of her parents. Throughout the movie director Claude Chabrol uses flashbacks to create a purposeful confusion as to what is true and what is false in Violette's later version of events when she is arrested and tried for the murder of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. The murder set off a true hysteria in France as the country tried to cope with a case of unfeeling and unprecedented parricide in 1933.
Huppert was only twenty-five when she made this movie. Director Claude Chabrol dressed her in black dress, hat and coat in the best tradition of the femme fatale. But it did not take a lot of creative genius to do it. Her dress duplicates the dress of the real Violette you will find in the news of that day. This was the first of a number of films upon which Chabrol and Huppert collaborated. You can see the brilliance of one of France's greatest actresses in the making in this early film. It is chilling because it is real. A true Edgar Allen Poe horror story you will enjoy.
Unknown to her parents, at the ripe age of 18, Violette keeps a room in another part of Paris for liaisons with young men as a prostitute. Violette gets syphilis from an unknown client. She discovers from a medical student that the disease can be inherited and is able to convince her parents that it has happened in her case. Her parents never consult the doctor who made the diagnosis. This would be incredible except that this movie is based upon a true story and they obviously prefer their daughter's version of the truth more than finding out for themselves.
Violette eventually falls desperately in love with a young man she meets in a bar named Jean Dabin (Jean-Francois Garreaud). Her "love" for this handsome yet unambitious young man finally unleashes the psychopathy which she has manifested with smaller bad acts earlier in the movie. It leads her to use her earnings as a prostitute to buy him suits, watches, and has her aspire to marry him. She even steals her father's ring to give it to him as a present. Dabin takes all of the bounty Violette provides him but remains totally emotionally uninvolved, leaving for the countryside.
While Dabin is gone Violette resolves that the only way to have him is to kill her parents and steal their savings. Violette uses packets of medicine supposedly prescribed by the doctor to treat the family's non-existent disease. In fact she is poisoning the parents. She engages in a grisly sociopathic feast after her attempted killing of her parents. Throughout the movie director Claude Chabrol uses flashbacks to create a purposeful confusion as to what is true and what is false in Violette's later version of events when she is arrested and tried for the murder of her father and the attempted murder of her mother. The murder set off a true hysteria in France as the country tried to cope with a case of unfeeling and unprecedented parricide in 1933.
Huppert was only twenty-five when she made this movie. Director Claude Chabrol dressed her in black dress, hat and coat in the best tradition of the femme fatale. But it did not take a lot of creative genius to do it. Her dress duplicates the dress of the real Violette you will find in the news of that day. This was the first of a number of films upon which Chabrol and Huppert collaborated. You can see the brilliance of one of France's greatest actresses in the making in this early film. It is chilling because it is real. A true Edgar Allen Poe horror story you will enjoy.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great film, bad transfer!
5 Jun 2010
First let me tell you. I own the Koch-Lorber DVD version of this film. It is a terrible transfer. The picture quality is shockingly bad and the film is in 1.33:1 (but should probably be in 1.66:1, or even more than that). This is, unfortunately, the only DVD of the film with English subtitles, that I know off.
The film is based on the true story about Violette Nozière, and takes place in 1934. Violette, a teenager, plays the innocent young girl at home but spends her days and nights with men who desire her. Her life becomes complicated when she is diagnosed with syphilis and has to acquire a lot of money to keep her latest lover happy.
Violette is the first of many films Chabrol made with Isabelle Huppert in the lead (others include Story of Women, Madame Bovary, La cérémonie and The Swindle). Isabelle Huppert is amazing in her role and it is mesmerising to watch her go from being so sexy and cold woman to an innocent and warm child. This is a dark and difficult drama, which tries to stay away from taking sides, but rather shows the mystery.
SPOILERS! Violette kills her father and defends herself by alleging that he had molested her. Chabrol's never tells us whether Violette is lying or not. Also was she always so cold or is she like this because she was molested by her father (if that happened at all) or is this personality changes do to syphilis? We are never told.
I gave the film 8/10
The film is based on the true story about Violette Nozière, and takes place in 1934. Violette, a teenager, plays the innocent young girl at home but spends her days and nights with men who desire her. Her life becomes complicated when she is diagnosed with syphilis and has to acquire a lot of money to keep her latest lover happy.
Violette is the first of many films Chabrol made with Isabelle Huppert in the lead (others include Story of Women, Madame Bovary, La cérémonie and The Swindle). Isabelle Huppert is amazing in her role and it is mesmerising to watch her go from being so sexy and cold woman to an innocent and warm child. This is a dark and difficult drama, which tries to stay away from taking sides, but rather shows the mystery.
SPOILERS! Violette kills her father and defends herself by alleging that he had molested her. Chabrol's never tells us whether Violette is lying or not. Also was she always so cold or is she like this because she was molested by her father (if that happened at all) or is this personality changes do to syphilis? We are never told.
I gave the film 8/10
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
An announced tragedy!
20 July 2009
Violette Noizzere is a striking and devastating portrait based on real facts about a girl with a weird behavior due unsaid tragic events in her early adolescence. That sexual abuse will cause a fatal and ruthless vengeance with unpredictable consequences.
The amazing performance of Isabelle Huppert (one of my five beloved French actress ever) deserved her the Golden Bear Prize in Berlin 1976.
The amazing performance of Isabelle Huppert (one of my five beloved French actress ever) deserved her the Golden Bear Prize in Berlin 1976.
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