So it's come to this. Claude Chabrol, one of the original New Wavers, those enemies of "prestige" cinema and of literary cinema, is reduced to doing a tasteful, well-mounted, and sparsely narrated treatment of one of the (truly) Great Books. Well, Jean Renoir, one of the New Wave's spiritual fathers, had treated the same book in the 1930s -- but that's no excuse. Jean-François Balmer is very effective as the ineffectual husband. With Isabelle Huppert, Jean Yanne, and Christophe Malavoy. (1991) — Duncan Shepherd
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