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Audio Format: DD 2.0 Video Format: Widescreen 1:85:1 Languages: French Subtitles: English Region Code: 1 Year Made: 1984-1988 Running Time: 518
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This box set contains 5 complete films from the director who has been called "France's Alfred Hitchcock."
Betty:
A beautiful, drunken and promiscuous girl (Marie Trintignant) ends a disastrous evening at The Hole, a bar catering to the twisted and outcast. There she meets the recently widowed Laure (Stephane Audran), an elegant retiree who lives alone in a luxury hotel. Laure takes Betty under her wing. Gradually, details of Betty's sad, sordid and, at times, sinister story of betrayal and self-destruction unfold in flashbacks as the women??s relationship evolves in to a lethal game of cat-and-mouse. Adapted from the novel by Georges Simenon. (French with English subtitles)
The Color of Lies:
When a young girl is found raped and murdered in a slumbering fishing community, the chief of police, Frederique Lesage (the beautiful Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), identifies Rene, a washed-up artist (Jacques Gamblin), as the primary suspect. His seemingly devoted wife Viviane (Sandrine Bonnaire) supports him in the face of rumors, while simultaneously conducting an illicit liaison with a celebrity writer. Rene and Viviane??s lives come under close scrutiny, which puts further strain on their volatile relationship. Meanwhile, Frederique becomes better acquainted with the eccentric residents of the town, including a self-important TV journalist (Antoine de Caunes), a small-time crook who fences stolen goods (Pierre Martot), and a curious pair of married shopkeepers (Bulle Ogier and Noel Simsolo). (French with English subtitles)
Cop Au Vin:
A classic Claude Chabrol thriller set in the belly of a small town full of dark plots, delicious secrets, and multiple murders. Stephane Audran plays a cruel, wheelchair-bound invalid who bullies her teenaged son Louis (Lucas Belvaux) into abject obedience. The pair is threatened by a conniving trio of ??upright citizens?? that want to buy her property as part of a deal for a lucrative development project. However, the two eccentrics, who are given to reading everyone??s mail before it is delivered, won??t sell. With townsfolk dropping off left and right in a series of gruesome murders, it requires the deceptively charming Inspector Lavardin (Jean Poiret) to get to the bottom of it all.(French with English subtitles)
L'Enfer:
A picture-perfect bride and groom: Paul (Francois Cluzet) is charming and handsome and Nelly (Emmanuelle Beart) is beautiful, devoted and carefree. Both are madly in love and work hard to make their Eden-like lakeside hotel a success. Unfortunately, Paul can??t shake this nagging feeling that Nelly is having an affair with a local mechanic. Little by little, Paul??s jealousy grows to insane proportions as he is eventually plunged into an unfathomable purgatory of doubt and dementia. Working from a script by master French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Les Diaboliques), Chabrol presents a gripping thriller of pathological jealousy and madness. (French with English subtitles)
Inspecteur Lavardin:
Jean Poiret returns as the remarkably urbane detective from Cop au Vin. This time he arrives at a cozy, seaside village to investigate the bizarre murder of an eminent Catholic author. A ??pillar?? of society, the writer is found dead by the shore, the word PIG scrawled across his naked body with lipstick and a huge stab wound in his back. The usually cool sleuth is shaken when he discovers that the victim??s widow is none other than his old flame. (French with English subtitles)
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