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Rupture, La (La Rupture)
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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"Never has Chabrol's elegant style been so bravura...nor his insight into...human nature so profound." -Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Helene is a good mother with a checkered past as a stripper and barmaid. She divorces her ne'er-do-well husband and her in-Iaws blame her for causing her husband's addiction and set out to remove their grandchild from Helene's custody. Thwarted by the courts, they hire a seedy penniIess operative, Paul to destroy her reputation.
PauI moves into her rooming house and begins to insinuate himself into her life, hatching darker and more convoluted plots to implicate HeIene in everything from drugs to a bizarre kidnapping plot.
A harrowing thriller from France's master of suspense, La Rupture ranks among ChabroI's finest works. Stephane Audran's taut performance is sleek and mesmerizing, while Jean Pierre CasseI's vilIain is a stand-out, the precursor of the comicaIIy eviI viIlains of contemporary fiIm.
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