The most Hitchcockean director to surf the famous French New Wave of cinema, the literate, brilliant, now-gone Claude Chabrol provides a last masterwork in a blithely casual, rather Altman-like manner. The plot, a holiday ramble of murder suspects and erotic hooks in pretty Nimes, France, stars Gérard Depardieu as the aging, vacationing, but alert Bellamy. He follows his massive gut and sly instincts, yet not smugly, to surprises at times grim or whimsical but always adult. Ace in support are wife Marie Bunel, Clovis Cornillac, Jacques Gamblin, and delicious young Adrienne Pauly. Terrific, layered entertainment, but don’t expect clockwork plotting or violent thrills. (2011) — David Elliott
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