A naïve television weather forecaster finds herself torn between two men – a gnarled novelist and a capricious young heir – with fatal consequences. Chabrol’s penultimate feature crackles with class contempt, in which a woman becomes, quite literally, an object of possession, and the crime feels less like an aberration than an expression of the same entitlement that preceded it. Screen: NFT3. Screening details: Special screening available; English language subtitles; Q&A with Claude Chabrol’s daughter and collaborator Cécile Maistre-Chabrol.
