Oct 11, 2017 - In fact, we already have in the form of an all-but forgotten 1998 film by British genre director Paul WS Anderson. Soldier may bear little. Dec 16, 1997 - On Television: December 16, 1997. Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller Director: Philip Saville. Synopsis: The tragic, unexpected death of David.
Claude Chabrol's formula remains intact. And unchanging. The setting is a small town in the provinces, in this case a fishing village on the Breton coast. The cast is middle-class, intelligent, often with artistic pretensions. A murder is rumoured, or actually happens, and gossip starts to fly, implicating the leading players. The audience knows nothing and the pace is slow.
The name of the killer matters less than the enfolding relationships. Does the wife suspect her husband? Will the husband forgive the wife for what she may, or may not, have done?
Nuance and subtlety have preference over blood and thunder. Rene (Jacques Gamblin) is married to Vivienne (Sandrine Bonnaire).
He's an artist who hasn't had an exhibition for 12 years. She has reached that stage in life where she questions the validity of her usefulness, wondering whether the man with whom she shares her cottage is the same as the man she fell in love with. He is too self-absorbed to notice. When a 10-year-old girl is found strangled and sexually molested in the woods, he is prime suspect. The girl was his pupil and he was the last to see her alive. The drama changes things. Rene rediscovers his talent for portraiture.
Vivienne is flattered by the attention of a TV presenter and writer (Antoine de Caunes), who has recently moved into the area. There is another death. Vivienne re-examines her loyalties. The police chief (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) from St Malo takes a softly softly catchee monkey approach.
Bonnaire carries suffering like the lingering memory of past betrayal. She is adept at waiting for pain. Vivienne stands by her man and, at the same time, invites sympathy. She may be trapped in a marriage and caught in the web, but instinctively knows, as a child who is lied to, that truth will free her. Ultimately, these people have to mean something, their fears and doubts must register on a deeper consciousness. Reviewed on: 11 Jul 2001.
On Television: December 16, 1997 Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller Director: Synopsis: The tragic, unexpected death of David in a car-crash causes the cozy, safe life of gardener Beth to be thrown into complete chaos. In the aftermath, as Beth begins to pick up the pieces, worrying facts come to light about David’s illegal deals with Oliver, the family solicitor, and his apparent long-running, illicit affair with Julia, Oliver’s wife. In her distress and disbelief Beth digs deeper into her husband’s private affairs and uncovers another layer of lies and deceit concerning Julia’s mental stability and her friends’ hollow, loveless marriage. Beth’s anger and desperation for the truth about the husband she loved drives her ever on toward the truth behind tragic events of the past which lead inevitably towards further tragedy to come.
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