CINEMA FROM THE WORLD
Claude Chabrol Box Set /Tales of Deceit
Five films about wicked women, crooked cops, and disastrous affairs.
Adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon, Betty is erotically suspenseful...and Hitchockian. The exchange of identity and guilt between two women of different ages, both in love with the same man. "Not to be missed" -- New York Daily News.
When a young girl is found raped and murdered in a slumbering fishing community, the chief of police, Frederique Lesage (the beautiful Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), identifies René, a washed-up artist (Jacques Gamblin) as the primary suspect...
Cop au vin is a classic Claude Chabrol thriller set in the belly of a small town full of dark plots, delicious secrets, and multiple murders.
Jean Poiret returns as the remarkably urbane detective from Cop au vin. This time he arrives at a cozy, seaside village to investigate the bizarre murder of a eminent Catholic author. A "pillar" of society, the writer is found dead by shore, the word PIG scrawled across his naked body with lipstick and a huge stab wound in his back.
A picture-perfect bride and groom: Paul (François Cluzet) is charming and handsome and Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) is beautiful, devoted and carefree. Both are madly in love and work hard to make their Eden-like lakeside hotel a success. Unfortunately, Paul can’t shake this nagging feeling that Nelly is having an affair with a local mechanic..