No other filmmaker gave us the flavor
of infidelity better than Chabrol with company of his muse Stephane Audran.
Unlike similiar affair of ‘The Unfaithful Wife’, here both the infidel partners
keep on cheating their marital partners. Their relationship grew out of
unsatisfactory sexual urge as the man has sick bed ridden wife and the lady has
cold husband who often remained occupied with his career. Chabrol portrayed one
of the most sexually charged couple on screen here where wilderness and
passionate physical hunger runs high whenever we see the Stephane Audran and
Michel Piccoli in their intimate private moments.Behind the affair runs crime
that begets another. Gradually one by one both of them get themselves free from
partners by killing them. & it’s perfect crime where one looks suicide
& the other an accident.
Using prop of infidelity Chabrol
represented the satire on microcosm of French bourgeoisie society’s masked
immorality. There’re quite a scene where Audran and Piccoli under physical
bewilderness indulge in love making in the museum where beer cork popping up
with splash on vintage frames on wall. We see the husband who don’t mind her
wife is having an affair with his political partner as long the fellow satisfy
his political needs and ambition. Once
again Audran is just superb here, watching her body language I wonder is there
any other actress who maintained sophistication and elegance on screen even
though she’s infidel bitch! Like any of Chabrol film it demands patience in the
beginning from its audience, provided that it gives you gripping, intriguing
thrill and drama leading to potent finale.
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