" L'enfer " is one of the best Chabrol films.Francois Cluzet is truly magnificent as paranoic husband who suspects his wife about having affairs.
Emmanuelle Beart is also very good , she's very innocent and sexy.
I think Cluzet's madness is very strange because we don't know when it's beginning.And the voices from his head , it's only the voices or maybe
the Satan speak to him ?
i didn't see satan in the cast, so it must have been someone else...
shareBut he was there , I'm sure that.No , I think that Chabrol has striking resemblance to Hitchcock on the metaphysical level : we often see church , crossess , priests , the bible , cemetarys in his films.We always not shure
about his characters : they are evil because social factors or maybe it's something more deep and dangerous ?.Evil voices in head of Paul ( L'enfer ) are
signs of mental ilnesss or devil tempted ?
It's all about Paul losing the grip on reality - which is also shown in
Chabrol's masterful use of the perception of time (as opposed to real time)
...a great movie which came into my mind the other day discussing
David Lynch's Mulholland Drive - ALSO about a person losing her grip on reality!
This is difficult territory that only truly great directors are able to handle ...
I only recently watched this and I have to say I was extremely impressed. Chabrol's treatment of his subject matter is masterful and totally assured throughout. (The treatment of time, which Chabrol explains in the interview on the DVD, is particularly interesting in terms of the film's structure.) This makes for a taut, precise, gripping and suspenseful film which also has exemplary performances from the two leads. One of Chabrol's very best films.
shareI thought that it was a rather good exposition of a person's troubled mental health making them regress towards immaturity and then act out childhood rage and suspicion, with the intellect and physique of an adult.
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