The Color of Lies
Au cœur du mensonge
Claude Chabrol
An unsuccessful painter obliged to give drawing classes to make a living, handicapped by the 1986 rue de Rennes bomb attack in Paris, René Sterne was the last to see his young student Éloïse Michel before she was found raped and strangled. This arouses the suspicions of Frédérique Lesage, recently promoted to police superintendent in the good city of Saint-Malo...
With : Sandrine Bonnaire, Jacques Gamblin, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Antoine de Caunes
Screenplay : Claude Chabrol, Odile Barski
Image : Eduardo Serra
Music : Mathieu Chabrol
Screenplay : Claude Chabrol, Odile Barski
Image : Eduardo Serra
Music : Mathieu Chabrol
Production : MK2 Productions, France3 Cinéma
Distribution: MK2
Distribution: MK2
" The film deals with appearances and deception, rumours and deceit, but Chabrol doesn't try to teach any moral lessons. More than lies, the film is about truth. It is a subtle reflection on the lack of truth, on the countless number of incomplete, distinct, and relative truths" (J.M. Frodon). "The script is very careful to never weigh itself down with the crime, nor even the criminal, but focuses on the rumour it inspires. It takes curious, oblique and even manipulative paths to give the work a general sense of perversion, but resolves the enigmas it poses with a caustic elegance" (O. Seguret).