The movement pulls in a rusticlooking apartment building which the dvd commentary explains is a fake french farmhouse, a. Protagonistica, ciji lik tumaci stephane audran je zena koja napusta mentalno bolesnog muza koji joj je ozlijedio dijete. This is until a cast of characters get involved, from rich, vindictive parentsinlaw to a boarding house full of eccentrics. Benevolence controls the narrative, but wickedness is imbued w humor, sex, perverse delight.
Michel bouquet, jeanpierre cassel, stephane audran. It can be considered to be a thriller, a film noir, a horror film, or a philosophical fantasy, but it seems to escape the boundaries of all of these genre types. At the one point where there is fighting in the film it looked like stage fighting rather than film fighting. However, this is not a horror film, but rather a black comedy. Po zanru je triler, a predstavlja adaptaciju romana the baloon man americke knjizevnice charlotte armstrong.
Jan 12, 2020 chabrol has crammed the film with a weird, quirky supporting cast, ranging from a morally censorious landlady annie cordy to a hammy actor with a much more expansive, humanistic view of morality mario david to the trio of gossipy old women who, like a greek chorus, comment on the action and come to life as avenging harpies or guardian angels in. While the boy is in hospital, helene rents a room in a boarding. The film, which was shown at the new york film festival at lincoln. The opening scene, in which charles regnier the strangely androgynous jeanclaude drouot injures his son during a domestic dispute, is disturbing. While the boy is in hospital, helene rents a room in a. Like his colleagues and contemporaries jeanluc godard, francois truffaut, eric rohmer and jacques rivette, chabrol was a critic for the influential. The film was also known as the breakup at times in its release in the united states. Pukotina ili lom je francuskoitalijanskobelgijski igrani film snimljen 1970. A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved. Another characteristic chabrol onslaught on the bourgeois family, which falls chronologically between the warmth of le boucher and the aridity of ten days wond. Directed by claude chabrol with stephane audran, jeanpierre cassel, michel bouquet. Director claude chabrols admiration for the work of alfred hitchcock is evident. With gerard blain, jeanclaude brialy, juliette mayniel, guy decomble.
The film stars michel bouquet as an ad executive named charles who kills his mistress but cannot handle the guilt, so he confesses his crime to her husband francois perier and his wife. From any angle, the film turns out to be not what you would expect. Another characteristic chabrol onslaught on the bourgeois family, which falls chronologically between the warmth of le boucher and the aridity of ten days. Helene regniers husband charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son michel in a rage. With stephane audran, jeanpierre cassel, michel bouquet, annie cordy. The opening scene, a melodramatic kitchen sink fight between husband, wife, and little son, ends with a clear distinction for the narrativehusband bad man, wife good person. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame helene for their sons condition and vow to win custody of michel. This interview, which took place during the 1970 new york film festival, shows him at midpoint in his life, just as he had emerged from a period of neglect and was making some of his best films. It is intriguing how the same faces appear and reappear in claude chabrols films, often in carboncopy parts.
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