When the dead body of Mr Kaplan is found, a kitchen knife in the back, all eyes turn to the maid. When the widow reveals that her departed husband was incapable of giving her children, all eyes turn to the widow. Beneath this passionate crime, a modern day detective will discover that temptation, devotion, remorse and desire are the best fuels for killing love.
Acting
Hélène Fillières serves icy widow realness with devastating control.
Direction
Masson turns a country house into a pressure cooker of repressed want.
Director
Laetitia Masson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Laetitia Masson adapted this from a 1960s novel but relocated it to modern France, which somehow makes the repressed aristocratic energy feel even more absurd.
This bombed critically because critics expected a straight thriller and got a melodrama about bourgeois sexual hypocrisy—essentially, they were mad it was too French.
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