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Chabrol has made lots of movies and this in my estimation is his sexiest. Usually in his late sixties and early seventies pictures Stephane Audran is Chabrol's star and she is beautiful but also icy cold. Audran seems encased in her beauty and expresses very little in the way of emotion. It is nice to see an actress in a Chabrol film who express as much emotion and sensuality as Romy Schneider and there are lots of different kinds of emotions and sensuality to be expressed in Innocents. As to be expected in a Chabrol film the plot involves infidelity and murder but unlike many of Chabrols other treatments of his pet themes this film has some real heat. Chabrol loves to film the decadence of the rich as they enjoy their leisures and pleasures and San Tropez provides the perfect setting for this story of the idle rich playing dangerous games. Hitchcock is always mentioned in the same breath as Chabrol but Chabrol subverts Hitchcock as much as he borrows from him. In Hitchcock no matter how complicated things got there was always a comfortable resolution. In Chabrol complications do not work themselves out so neatly. Things get tangled and they remain tangled. In Chabrol's world everyone is a fallen creature, each character just realizes it in a different way and at a different time. Romy Schneider appears in one striking outfit after another, including one scene in a very cool caftan, another in black silk with cascades of diamonds. Her sensuality seems luxurious and this is a woman who basks in the glow of her luxury. Two men want her bad enough to kill, her husband played by Rod Steiger and the kite flying writer who lives next door. One plot gives way to another as each character tries to gain the upper hand. I've seen maybe 20 Chabrol fims and this one I would place very near the top of the list. The acting is tremendous by the main three characters and by the minor characters as well, ie the police detectives(great duo of detectives) and lawyer(great actor, Jean Rochefort). The ending as always with Chabrol is unexpected. A very sexy and very satisfying film which will please the most discerning filmgoer and delight anyone who already considers themselves a Chabrol fan. Also recommeded by Chabrol: La Ceremonie, Wedding in Blood, Le Boucher, The Unfaithful Woman(Le Femme Infidele), Cry of the Owl & This Man Must Die.

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i remember this movie from when I was a young girl growing up in Europe, but haven't seen it in years. Romy Schneider was a great actress and that alone makes it worth seeing. It impressed me so much at the time, I'll give it four stars...also recommended: Chabrol's "The Butcher" (Le Boucher).

Maintains a heart-stopping pace all the way through.
This loosely adapted biography of prima ballerina Jodi Lee Pavlova involves her affair with Rudolph Nureyev and the hundreds of impossible-to-detect ways she made her permanent mark on the ballet world. It was she who defined the now classic character of the little matchstick girl in the well known ballet "Ou Est La Bibliotheque, Bebe?" by appearing onstage under harsh lighting with a lit cigarette in her mouth, curses on her ruby lips, and a bad attitude that won hearts all over the world. But the scene she is most famous for is the 1977 Covent Garden Christmas Eve production of the Nutcracker. For it was there that she and Nureyev cemented their permanent love-hate, sex-surfing-disco-and-death manifesto by actually slugging it out in the lobby during intermission. Along the way to becoming a legend in her own time, she is widely credited with introducing the elegant, aloof, Nureyev to bowling and putt-putt golf, sex in glass elevators at high noon, crank phone calls in the middle of the night, insomniac pirouettes on balcony railings on weekday evenings, and obscure Chinese wines every weekend (who in the ballet world can forget the sight of Nureyev onstage as Prince Floramund with the "head shivers"). In return, Nureyev became her often petulant, blatantly misogynistic, constantly carping, somewhat embittered, often disoriented,love slave. And oh my! Can anyone ever forget her cat claws bared, fur flying, spitting and howling, tutu-ripping backstage brawl with Gelsey Kirkland after Kirkland called Nureyev "a lunatic?" Cinematographer Boogie Scheinfranken has created a timeless work of stunning visual beauty as seen through a prism of stage lighting and lots of glittering green eyeshadow (Nureyev's). A Must See!