La Femme Infidèle / The Unfaithful Wife (15) at South Hill Park
Tue 12 Jan
|South Hill Park Arts Centre
The ending lands like a cold hand on the shoulder – BFI
Time & Location
12 Jan 2027, 19:30
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Ringmead, Bracknell RG12 7PA, UK
About the Event
Directed by Claude Chabrol | Drama/Thriller | 99 mins | France | 1969 (digital restoration) | French with English subtitles
Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Serge Bento and Michel Duchaussoy
A tale of infidelity, passion and violence set against a backdrop of bourgeois respectability in late 1960’s Versailles. When wealthy businessman, Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet), starts suspecting that his wife Hélène (Stéphane Audran) is having an affair, he decides to hire a private investigator to confirm his fears. However, in a bourgeois world governed by appearances and exacting rituals, emotions are to be contained at all costs or else… (Institut Français)