'Bout time for another Chabrol - it has, after all, been...almost 2 weeks?
This is late Chabrol on form, tracking the various intrigues in a small Breton village where everyone knows everyone else, who's doing what and who. A young girl is murdered and her art teacher becomes prime suspect; a no-nonsense police investigator arrives from Paris...
The film recalls a central theme of Bresson's L'Argent in that ...if you falsely accuse/suspect someone of a crime, this may compell them to commit an act
they wouldn't normally have, thus doubly damning themselves.
Not everything is neatly resolved or connected however, but movies should (sometimes at least) be like real life, and not like life as portrayed in the movies.
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