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The Swimming Pool
Why this pick
Its sunlit luxury and four-person holiday setting conceal the same coolly escalating erotic rivalry, shifting alliances, and polished menace that make Chabrol’s drama so unsettling.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1968 1h 40m FRA
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The Unfaithful Wife
Why this pick
Chabrol brings a similarly immaculate bourgeois surface, patient observation, and quietly poisonous emotional logic to a marriage destabilised by desire and suspicion.
03
Le Boucher
Why this pick
Another exquisitely controlled Chabrol study of attraction shadowed by danger, balancing restrained performances, deceptively pastoral beauty, and mounting psychological unease.
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La Collectionneuse
Why this pick
It shares the French Riviera sheen and games of seduction, but follows the social power struggles with Rohmer’s talkier, slyly ironic precision.
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La Cérémonie
Why this pick
Its atmosphere is harsher, but it retains Chabrol’s exacting gaze on class, concealment, and social rituals whose apparent calm gradually becomes threatening.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dominique Zardi
Riais
Stéphane Audran
Frédérique
Serge Bento
Bookseller
Jacqueline Sassard
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