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Web of Passion

Chabrol’s gleefully transgressive film is a gorgeous Provençal murder mystery in which a dangerous interloper exposes the rot at the heart of a wealthy family.

  • Director

    Claude Chabrol

  • With

    Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Bernadette Lafont

  • France 1959. 109min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    PG

  • English subtitles

A wealthy Provençal family. A dangerous interloper. A murder that feels, in retrospect, entirely inevitable. Chabrol’s second feature trades the austerity of his debut for something altogether more lurid, adapting Stanley Ellin’s novel with a gleeful sense of transgression. The result is a film that prefigures the Hitchcockian thrillers to come – sun-drenched, serpentine and shot through with class malice.

Contains scenes of domestic violence or abuse.