Violette Nozière

Violette Nozière

1978 · 124 min · FR · 6.7 (90 votes)
Dir. Claude Chabrol · Starring Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Lisa Langlois, Bernard Alane · Music Pierre Jansen

“The Story of an Extraordinary Crime.”

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Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

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A chilling descent into a young woman's fractured psyche. This film offers a stark, unflinching look at societal pressures and hidden desires, leaving a lingering sense of unease.

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