Inspired by the notorious 1906 murder of prominent New York architect Stanford White by the mentally unstable socialite who married White's former mistress, showgirl Evelyn Nesbit, veteran filmmaker Claude Chabrol's icy tale of love, lust and self-delusion is an elegant exercise in corrosive psychological suspense.
Lyonnais TV weather girl Gabrielle Leneige (Ludivine Sagnier), whose single mother, Marie (Marie Bunel), owns a local bookstore, hungers for better things and affects a sophisticated veneer that belies an emotional vulnerability of which she herself is dangerously unaware. A chance meeting at the station with literary lion Charles Saint-Denis (Fr...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
115 mins