Deep Water

Deep Water

1981 · 95 min · FR · 6.1 (33 votes)
Dir. Michel Deville · Starring Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Christian Benedetti, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Philippe Clévenot, Martine Costes · Music Quentin Damamme
DramaThriller

On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.

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A suffocating atmosphere of unspoken resentments and simmering desires. The film feels like a slow descent into a psychological abyss, where politeness barely masks a deep, unsettling tension between its characters.

tenseunsettlingmelancholicclaustrophobicslow-burnarthouse dramapsychological thrillerEuropean cinemamarital discordhidden desirespsychological manipulationrepressed emotions
husband wife relationshipbased on novel or bookperfumerfather daughter relationshipjersey island
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