Scoundrel in White
Comedy
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
VIBE
This film feels like a sharp, cynical jab at societal expectations and personal desires. It's a darkly funny, unsettling look at a man's warped worldview and desperate attempts to control his fate, wrapped in a stylish, European package.
cynicaldarkly humoroussatiricalunsettlingsteadyEuropean arthousedark comedysatiremarriagedeceptionmachismoprejudice
based on novel or booknurseparaplegicmarriagedark comedysatirebordeauxfrancemachismomarriage of convenienceprejudiceclinicdoctormarriage for moneysister-in-lawtunisiadoctor nurse relationship
