If Claude Chabrol, master of psychological tension and creeping psychosis, really is France's answer to Alfred Hitchcock, then this, his 50th (!) film, is his MR. AND MRS. SMITH: An uncharacteristic and equally uneasy attempt at light comedy. Victor and Betty
(Michel Serrault of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES and longtime Chabrol favorite Isabelle Huppert) are a pair of small-time con artists who make a nice living gently rolling drunken conventioneers. But Betty is after much larger game: Unbeknownst to Victor, she's spent the past year pursuing Maurice
(Francois Cluzet), a treasurer for an international finance outfit. Maurice is about to hand-deliver 5 million Swiss francs...
Released:
1997
Rated:
NR
Length:
105 mins