Thursday, June 30, 2011
FAMILY FEUD
Today's film was Claude Chabrol's fiftieth production
La fleur du mal / The Flower of Evil (2003)
This is the best of the three that I have seen so far.
An upper middle class family with a long pedigree (but merchants, oh dear) repeat history but not quite in the way that history would have predicted. A romance between cousins, the cousins parents married to each other, the mom running for Mayor of the town, an aunt who has the family memories of collaboration in the Second World War and her brother who............
But don't let me get ahead of the film.
Again, a great one take track for the titles and at its end a surprise that looms over us for the rest of the film.
Great acting, superb production, the usual fast action, clear plot and a shocking ending make this a very enjoyable film to see. Again, everything looks good on the surface but just an inch down, oh la la.
I will give this one a 4 out of Netflix5.
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