La Femme infidèle

Writer-director Claude Chabrol's eerie 1969 masterpiece of frozen emotions and unspoken truths... It is a film of icy fascination.”Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

A leading member of the French New Wave, who came to be regarded as the ‘French Hitchcock’, for many years Claude Chabrol’s classic thrillers have been missing from UK screens. A mid-career masterpiece within Chabrol’s remarkable run of bourgeois psychological thrillers, La Femme infidèle traces the fallout following a husband’s discovery of his wife’s affair and his quiet, unnerving and devastating act of revenge.

Starring Stéphane Audran (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Babette’s Feast) and Michel Bouquet (Renoir, The Last Mitterrand), the film has recently been remade as Minotaur by Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year.