Jeanne Valérie

A provocative adaptation of the classic novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Updated to present-day France by director Roger Vadim, the film follows Valmont (Gérard Philipe) and Juliette (Jeanne Moreau) as they manipulate each other into having extra-marital affairs. Sex becomes sport in this deliciously backstabbing drama which notably features a score by jazz legend Thelonious Monk.

Chabrol forges onto his signature terrain of the psychological thriller with his third film, a lurid and disturbing melodrama of infidelity, obsession and murder at a vineyard in rural Provence featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo. This alluring whodunit echoes both Alfred Hitchcock's most personal and obsessive films and Douglas Sirk's colorful 50's melodramas. French with English subtitles.