Violette Nozière

+ intro by academic Catherine Dousteyssier-Khoze

Isabelle Huppert, in the first of seven collaborations with Chabrol, brings her trademark opacity to the true story of a young Parisian woman who leads a dangerous double life.

  • Director

    Claude Chabrol

  • With

    Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Bernadette Lafont

  • France-Canada 1978. 125min

  • Digital

  • Certificate

    18

  • English subtitles

In 1930s Paris, 18-year-old Violette leads a secret double life – until the night she commits an unspeakable act. Isabelle Huppert, in the first of seven collaborations with Chabrol, brings her trademark opacity to one of the filmmaker’s most fascinating anti-heroines. Less interested in motive than in the social conditions that produce such acts, this is a film that steadfastly refuses to judge its criminal.

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury, domestic violence or abuse, rape and drug use.

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