The Unfaithful Wife
- Stéphane Audran: Hélène Desvallées
- Michel Bouquet: Charles Desvallées
- Michel Duchaussoy: Police officer Duval
- Maurice Ronet: Victor pegala
- Louise Chevalier: Maid
- Louise Rioton: Mamy
- Serge Bento: Bignon
- Henri Marteau: Paul
- Guy Marly: Police Officer Gobet
The unfaithful wife ( original title: La femme infidèle ). 's A film by Claude Chabrol drama from 1969, 2002 was directed by Adrian Lyne a remake titled Unfaithful.
Action
Charles and Hélène Desvallées lead for years a seemingly harmonious marriage. But while Charles works in Paris as a lawyer, to Hélène bored in her luxurious home. Only the couple's son is still at the center of the common interest. One day Charles is suspicious whether Hélène it is still true. To find out more details, he hired a private investigator to tail his wife. The private investigator handed Charles a few days later a photo with the address of his wife, the writer Victor pegala of the lover. On the birthday of their son Charles equips the lover a visit and told him whiskey drinking, that he leads an open relationship with Hélène, which does not correspond to the facts. The lover thinks Charles and leads him innocently by his apartment, but Charles is overwhelmed in the face of " Lotter bed " of his jealousy. In affect he strikes her lover Hélène with a stone bust. Finally, he removed carefully planned fingerprints and blood. The wrapped body Pegalas he creates in his car. On the way home with the dead man in the trunk him another car drives on, the driver insists on the police. Though the police officers appear, the murder remains initially undetected because Charles can draw with a generous check from the affair. Then he lowered the corpse Pegalas in a secluded pond. Hélène is, however, in vain at the door of her lover. He is gone. But she can not tell her husband. The atmosphere at home is increasingly irritated, the police come because of a missing person report of Pegalas divorced woman repeated surveys, in which Charles and his wife deny a closer acquaintance with the disappearances. Hélène is in the jacket of her husband's detective photo of her lover and burns it. The police come again, the two spouses insure their love, and you can see from the perspective of his wife and son, as Charles gradually, always looking back, disappears with the police.
Reviews
According to the dictionary of the international film, the film is a " melodramatic thriller from the milieu of the French bourgeoisie ," the " psychological forcefully staged with cool analytical view and formal rigor " is. It was " less on the police action in the center of interest ," but rather " schooled by Hitchcock voltage elements on the deformed psyche of the protagonists behind the cultivated facade" would reference.
Claude Chabrol also celebrates " here also the downfall of the seemingly idyllic world of the bourgeoisie, is now brittle facades and skillfully dissected the horrors of bourgeois routine to the smallest detail ," according to the TV guide prism.