The Bridesmaid

Pygmalion and Galatea go head-to-head with Oedipus in this chilling adaptation of Ruth Rendell's novel The Bridesmaid by the French master of disquiet, Claude Chabrol. Handsome Philip Tardieu (Benoit Magimel) is dedicated to both his job as an assistant building contractor and, somewhat more subtly, his youthful, widowed mother Christine (Aurore Clement), with whom he still lives along with his younger sisters Patricia (Anna Mihalcea) and the soon-to-be-married Sophie (Solene Bouton). Although he tries to be supportive of Christine's relationship with a recent divorcee named Gerard Courtois (Bernard Le Coq), Philip is obviously troubled when Christine suggests...