JUSTE AVANT LA NUIT
synopsis
Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier. Charles strangles Laura when one of their S&M games goes too far. Dazed, Charles walks out of the borrowed apartment in Paris and soon bumps into François in a nearby bistro. They drive back together to Versailles, where they have beautiful neighboring houses designed by François. The owner of the apartment had seen Laura and Charles together two months earlier, but she does not tell the police on the advice of François. Even though the police do not seem to have any clues to the crime, Charles has a difficult time coping with the situation, and trying to live a normal life with his two children and loving wife Hélène.
original title: | Juste avant la nuit |
country: | Italy, France |
year: | 1971 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Claude Chabrol |
film run: | 106' |
release date: | FR 31/03/1971, FI 23/04/1971, SE 27/04/1971, ES 09/1971, DK 04/11/1971, NL 23/12/1971, DE 05/09/1972, GR 24/11/1997 |
screenplay: | Claude Chabrol |
cast: | Celia, Marina Ninchi, Michel Bouquet |
cinematography by: | Jean Rabier |
film editing: | Jacques Gaillard |
art director: | Guy Littaye |
costumes designer: | Karl Lagerfeld |
producer: | André Génovès, Felice Testa Gay |