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Another in Claude Chabrol's 'Helene' cycle of sardonic and dark thrillers, starring the director's wife, Stephane Audran as an unfaithful wife. The film offers a portrayal of a Gaullist villain, a Mayor who has devious plans to buy up some property and turn it into a high-rise flat for workers who will be employed in his plastics factory. Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, the assistant to the Mayor of the small French town. Pierre's longstanding passionate affair with the Mayor's wife is hampered by both their loveless marriages. But then Pierre's sickly wife dies. Meanwhile, the Mayor, continuing with his shady plans, discovers their affair and blackmails Pierre to help him. There seems onlly one way out for the lovers - murder. Originally banned when it was first made, ostensibly because it was based on a real murder case but more likely because it coincided with the French elections.

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