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Though critics shouted influence
of Hitchcock in Chabrol cinema, here’s a wonder to check that a year prior to
Hitchcock masterpiece ‘Psycho’, Chabrol portrayed the psychological
thrill-drama of a mother obsessed young man committed a murder under
insanity. Well, this one is quite early Chabrol, shot in color with Jean Paul
Belmondo as lead. Compared to some of his brilliant films of seventies, this
one is too average one but nevertheless recommended one for his admirers. The Film
begins with a young dame exposing and playing provocative mischief from a
window towards other working class men like gardener and milkman, similarly a
voyeaur is peeping her through keyhole- bourgeois characters belong to a family
under single roof with a strange entry of dame and a nasty young man- an affair
started disrupting the marital life of a mid age couple- after slowly set the
characters and plot of bourgeoisie drama, a sudden murder of lady takes the film
towards different direction of crime
The film represents early and
young Belmondo prior ‘Breathless’ and he’s as nasty as nasty can. His breakfast
table scene with the lady of house is the scene dipped with humor. I just love
the way French wave film-makers portrayed mirror and reflection in their frames
in some of the key scenes and this one is certainly not an exception. Nothing
much to say about Henri Decae’s camera work but what’s thing to watch here is the
way Chabrol cleverly done the creative construction of narrative joining the normal sequences into jigsaw pieces. Together they touched multiple human vices ranging from
obsession, jealousy, instinctive urge to anger and guilt.
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