(LA FEMME INFIDELE)

Businessman Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet) leads a seemingly perfect bourgeois life with devoted wife Hélène (Stéphane Audran) and son Michel in their charming country home near Versailles. This apparent happiness rests on a carefully maintained façade. Suspecting Hélène of infidelity, Charles hires a private detective who uncovers her affair with writer Victor (Maurice Ronet). Chabrol’s dark, unpredictable tale of infidelity, passion and violence investigates the veneer of bourgeois respectability. An unmissable ‘Hitchcockian’ thriller, and one of Chabrol’s most famous and emblematic films, it simmers with tension, suspense, and unforgettable performances.

The screening will be introduced by Corey Cribb, Postdoctoral researcher in French Studies at Technological University Dublin.

Notes by Marie-Pierre Richard

Screening as part of the Claude Charbol programme at IFI French Film Festival 2025.