The adventures of two unemployable misfits who live in alcohol fuelled squalor in a Parisian flat.
by David Parkinson |
Published on
Release Date:
01 Jan 1994
Running Time:
100 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
L’Enfer
Working from a script by Henri-Georges Clouzot (of Les Diaboliques fame), Claude Chabrol indulges his passion for Hitchcockian mischief in this story of a country hotelier whose inability to accept his wife's love tips him into insane jealousy.
Chabrol exploits Emmanuelle Beart's radiant sensuality as shrewdly as he manipulates Francois Cluzet's self-lacerating suspicion. But his cunning concealment of the truth can't disguise the melodramatic nature and psychological shallowness of this otherwise polished diversion.
A cunning concealment of the truth can't disguise the melodramatic nature and psychological shallowness of this otherwise polished diversion.
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