La Femme Infidele

Michel Bouquet and Stephane Audran give superb performances in Claude Chabrol's LA FEMME INFIDELE, a gripping and stylishly made suspense tale.

Charles Desvallees (Michel Bouquet), a wealthy, mild-mannered insurance broker suspects that his wife Helene (Stephane Audran) is cheating on him. The detective reports that Helene spends her afternoons in the apartment of a divorced writer named Victor Pegala (Maurice Ronet). Charles visits Victor and sees Helene's cigarette lighter, and so questions him. As Victor starts to brag about their affair, Charles picks up a statuette and hits him over the head with it, killing him. He then calmly cleans up the blood, puts Vic...