Wedding in Blood (Chabrol, 1973): BFI Southbank, NFT1 9pm
This is part of the Claude Chabrol season at BFI Southbank. Other screenings of the film (September 10th and 29th) during the season are detailed here.Chicago Reader review:
Yet another facet of Claude Chabrol’s view of the bourgeois life as a
facade behind which lurk extravagant, destructive, and often totally
ridiculous passions (1974). Like his idol Alfred Hitchcock, Chabrol
loves to work variations on the disintegration of an ordered world; but
unlike Hitchcock, who keeps his order and his chaos neatly separated,
Chabrol concentrates more on character, so that when the bottom drops
out, it does so precisely and inevitably. Stephane Audran and Michel
Piccoli star as adulterous lovers who never manage to realize that
there’s an easier way out of their predicament than murder. A smashing
work from a master craftsman.
Dan Druker
Here (and above) is an extract.
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