VIOLETTE NOZIERE

| 1978 (New Release in 2026) – 130′ –  Drama, Period & History, Biopic, Thriller, Classic.
Written by: Odile Barski, Hervé Bromberger, Frédéric Grendel, Jean-Marie Fritere.
Directed by: Claude Chabrol.
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-Francois Garreaud, Lisa Langlis, Bernadette Lafont, Mario David, Dora Doll.
Official Selection Cannes International Film Festival 1978 (Winner Best Actress ~ Isabelle Huppert). Four César Nominations 1979 (Winner Best Supporting Actress ~ Stéphane Audran).
In French with English subtitles.
A Film Movement Classics release. |

Paris, 1933: Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert) will turn 18. She lives with her parents, Germaine (Stéphane Audran) and Baptiste (Jean Carmet), in a very modest apartment cluttered with ungainly furniture and objects. Violette can’t stand the cramped quarters or the drab atmosphere at home. Baptiste Noziere is only interested in his card games, while Germaine clumsily tries to raise her daughter according to a petit-bourgeois ideal that excludes any hint of dreaming. So Violette escapes in her own way, leading a double life: an emancipated young woman on the outside, elegantly dressed, with easy money, but a butterfly who folds her wings and slips into her drab chrysalis when she returns to her parents’ house. Her encounter with Jean Dabin (Jean Francois Garreaud), a mediocre and unscrupulous man with whom she falls madly in love, will further widen the gap between her two lives.