Nightcap

Nightcap

2000 · 101 min · FR · NR · 6.3 (151 votes)
Dir. Claude Chabrol · Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis, Rodolphe Pauly, Brigitte Catillon, Michel Robin · Music Matthieu Chabrol
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Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car wreck on his tenth birthday. Their lives are interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Jeanne, a young woman who has learned she was almost switched with Guillaume at birth.

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A chilling descent into repressed desires and familial deceit. The film's atmosphere is thick with unspoken tension, a slow-burn psychological unraveling that leaves you questioning everyone's motives.

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