Dir: Claude Chabrol | Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Sandrine Bonaire | France, Thriller 90’
You’d have to have led a charmed life to have seen a significant amount of the films of Claude Chabrol; a director capable of a quite extraordinary fecundity.
More remarkable even that the sheer quantity of the output he sustained throughout his long career was his constant ability to surprise you, since you never knew whether his next film would be a mere potboiler or another classic.
Firmly belonging in the latter category he managed late in the day with this adaptation of Ruth Rendell’s tale of murder among the bourgeoisie to produce a film as good as any he’d made during his heyday a quarter of a century earlier. @RichardChatten