After a frustrating series of hits (LA CEREMONIE), misses (RIEN NE VA PLUS) and in-betweens (MERCI POUR LE CHOCOLAT), Claude Chabrol returned to fine form with this cool mystery about the skeletons that tumble from a venerable French family's closet when a small-town election turns ugly. The film opens with a masterful tracking shot: The camera crosses the lawn of a stately country house in the Bordeaux region of France, slips through the front door and creeps up the stairs. In one bedroom, a dazed young woman sits on the floor; in the next, a dead body lies sprawled by the bed. Just how things came to this bloody pass becomes clear as the film replays the events of ...
Released:
2003
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins