The Cry of the Owl (Chabrol, 1987): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 8.55pm
This film is part of the Claude Chabrol season at BFI Southbank. The other screenings of the film on September 28th is detailed here.
Chicago Reader review:
Adapting the Patricia Highsmith thriller of the same title while
transferring the action from an American small town to Vichy, Claude
Chabrol returns to the manner—if not quite the distinction—of his late
60s work (e.g., La femme infidele, Le boucher). The plot
concerns a solitary figure (Christophe Malavoy) fleeing a vengeful wife
(Virginie Thevenet). He spies on a young woman (Mathilda May) from afar
until she discovers and is drawn to him, which destroys her own
relationship with her fiance (Jacques Penot). Things get much more
complicated after that; Jean-Pierre Kalfon (L’amour fou) plays
the police detective who eventually steps in. For viewers who enjoy the
grim moral ironies of Highsmith, this can be highly recommended; those
like myself who find her work gratuitously unpleasant won’t see any
reason here to revise their opinion.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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