Stephane Audran and Jean-Pierre Cassel head an excellent cast in Claude Chabrol's LA RUPTURE, a sordid and surreal look at the breakup of a marriage that has the morbid fascination of a snake pit as viewed through the microscope of a brilliant, but misanthropic, scientist.
In a state of LSD-induced mania, Charles Regnier (Jean-Claude Drouot) attacks his wife, Helene (Stephane Audran), and seriously injures their four-year-old son, Michel (Laurent Brunschwick). Helene takes Michel to the hospital, and Charles goes home to his wealthy industrialist father's house.
Helene gets a room in a boarding house across from the hospital and begins divorce proceedings agains...
Released:
1970
Rated:
NR
Length:
120 mins