Chabrol has his own way of creating suspense and tension that no one else can match.”Bong Joon Ho
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.
Credits
France 1969
98 min
Certificate 15
Dir Claude Chabrol
With Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet
Screenings
August
17 August
Chichester Film Festival
September
11 September
BFI Southbank, London
Cine Lumiere, London
Edinburgh Filmhouse
HOME, Manchester
ICA, London
Watershed, Bristol
25 September
Broadway, Nottingham
Warwick Arts Centre
More screenings to be confirmed.