Just Before Nightfall - 1971 - 6/10
AKA - Juste Avant La Nuit
Charles, weak, being coaxed.
His marriage is supposedly happy, the woman’s husband is a friend of his.
Guilt torments him, yet he cannot break free of the affair.
The female is stronger, more persistent, and can force him to do anything.
Including murder, which, once on her back, open like a flower, she suggests.
Middling Chabrol film, is less murder mystery (which occurs in the first minutes), more one of remorse and confronting indifference.
And “happy marriages”? Reference Tolstoy.
