Wedding in Blood

Les noces rouges

Two married lovers plot to murder their respective spouses in this caustic, briefly-banned portrait of provincial suffocation and the twisted logic of desire.

  • Director

    Claude Chabrol

  • With

    Stéphane Audran, Michel Piccoli

  • France 1973. 96min

  • Digital (restoration)

  • Certificate

    15

  • English subtitles

Two married lovers plot to murder their respective spouses. Inspired by a real fait divers – a brief, sensational crime story in a newspaper – Chabrol’s film sees regular collaborator Audran play opposite a fabulously oily Piccoli. Briefly banned in France for its proximity to a then-ongoing legal case, it is a caustic portrait of provincial suffocation and the twisted logic of desire.

Contains scenes of graphic violence or injury.