The Third Lover

The Third Lover

1962 · 80 min · FR · 6.4 (31 votes)
Dir. Claude Chabrol · Starring Jacques Charrier, Walther Reyer, Stéphane Audran, Daniel Boulanger, Erika Tweer, Michaël Munzer · Music Pierre Jansen
Drama

The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple's lives.

VIBE

A suffocatingly intimate drama where simmering tensions and unspoken desires brew beneath a veneer of intellectualism. It's a slow descent into psychological turmoil, exploring the destructive nature of envy and obsession in a picturesque, yet stifling, setting.

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