THE COLOR OF LIES

| 1999 – 108′ – Crime, Drama, Classic.
Written by: Claude Chabrol, Odile Barski.
Directed by: Claude Chabrol.
Starring: Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes, Bulle Ogier, Bernard Verley, Pierre Martot, Noël Simsolo.
Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 1999.
In French with English subtitles. 17+
An eOne/Arrow release. |

Chabrol once again uses a murder mystery to expose the underlying tensions and deceptions of a close-knit community. When a 10-year-old’s violated body is found in the woods of a Breton fishing village, suspicion falls on an unsuccessful painter whose wife is tempted by the advances of a conceited TV personality. Characteristically, Chabrol is less interested in whodunit mechanics than in dissecting a culture of lies – from advertising to adultery – that permeates modern society.

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