Juste avant la nuit

Just Before Nightfall

A man is driven mad with guilt after he accidentally kills his mistress, but his wife has good reason for wanting him to remain quiet.

  • Director

    Claude Chabrol

  • With

    Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet

  • France-Italy 1971. 108min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • English subtitles

A man accidentally kills his mistress and returns to his ordinary life, waiting, with mounting dread, to be found out. But nobody seems to be looking. Chabrol’s most pitiless examination of bourgeois self-preservation is a film in which the real horror is not guilt but the ease with which it can be absorbed.

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury, sexual violence and suicide.