An icy thriller of inexorability. Once upon a time, before his reputation fell prey to increasing indifference to foreign films and his own erratic output, former
Cahiers du Cinema critic Claude Chabrol was widely considered Alfred Hitchcock's heir apparent, in
that oh-so-very-French way, of course. This adaptation of English mystery writer Ruth Rendell's
A Judgement in Stone, transplanted to the French countryside, is exactly the sort of highbrow pulp that made him famous. Capable, slightly distant Sophie (Sandrine Bonnaire) comes to work as a
maid for the bourgeois Lelievre family: patriarch Georges (Jean-Pierre Cassel), stunning second wife Jacqu...
Released:
1995
Rated:
NR
Length:
111 mins