Web of Passion (Chabrol, 1959): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 2.50pm
This is part of the Claude Chabrol season at BFI Southbank. The other screenings of the film on September 5th is detailed here.
Chicago Reader review:
Claude Chabrol’s first color feature (1959) adapts a Stanley Ellin thriller in which a bourgeois family’s oedipal
conflicts lead to murder. The beautiful color cinematography of
Aix-en-Provence is by Henri Decae, and the film is plotted with a mise
en scene that suggests Alfred Hitchcock. The lively if uneven cast
includes Jean-Paul Belmondo, the creepy Andre Jocelyn, Madeleine
Robinson, Bernadette Lafont, and nouvelle vague axiom Laszlo
Szabo. It’s not a total success, but it was one of the first pictures to
translate the French New Wave’s genre interests into mainstream terms,
and it’s full of sexy and irreverent details.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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