Marie Trintignant

Famed purveyors of human neuroses, beloved auteur Claude Chabrol and writer Georges Simenon are a match made in heaven, as shown in this heady tale of bourgeois malaise. Playing glamorous confidante to Marie Trintignant’s fallen heroine, an icy Stéphane Audran embodies a murkier side of femininity.

Claude Chabrol’s acclaimed drama once again sees Isabelle Huppert excel at playing tragic and unlikable women who still elicit visceral sympathy. Tackling a true story amid a shameful chapter in French history, the film’s chillingly unsentimental outlook only enhances its authentic complexities.