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Françoise Sagan (writer)
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25 January 1963 (France)
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France, WWI. Landru, the father of four Children, contacts Parisian women through newspapers, seduces...
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True to the facts but dull
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Michèle Morgan | ... | Célestine Buisson | |
| Danielle Darrieux | ... | Berthe Heon | |
| Hildegard Knef | ... | Mme X. / Madame Ixe (as Hildegarde Neff) | |
| Juliette Mayniel | ... | Anna, Marie, Angèle Colomb | |
| Stéphane Audran | ... | Fernande Segret | |
| Catherine Rouvel | ... | Andrée Babelet | |
| Françoise Lugagne | ... | Catherine Landru | |
| Mary Marquet | ... | Madame Guillin | |
| Denise Provence | ... | Madame Laporte | |
| Serge Bento | ... | Maurice Landru | |
| Claude Mansard | ... | Maître de Moro Gafferi, Landru's defence attorney | |
| Robert Burnier | ... | Le président / Presiding judge | |
| Mario David | ... | Le procureur / Prosecutor | |
| Jean-Louis Maury | ... | Comissaire Belin | |
| Diane Lepvrier | ... | Suzanne Landru, Landru's Daughter |
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Bluebeard (USA)
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115 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Tell us what you know about Andrée Babelet.
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Version of Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
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G'schichten aus dem Wienerwald, Op.325
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Faithful - but uninspired - account of the notorious Landru case, which swept over post WWWI France.
The film follows the facts closely, from Henri Désiré Landru's "family life", seductions and murders to his trial and execution. Well if your objective was to get the main details of a famous serial murder case you will be satisfied. However a film lover could have expected something more fiery, more intense, more unsettling from Claude Chabrol than just that.
To tell the truth there is more to this movie than...just that. Indeed there are good production values, fine colours, slightly stylized settings and a stellar cast. Nevertheless, I couldn't help stifling a yawn now and then.
Why so? Maybe because such great ladies as Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Mary Marquet, or Hildegard Knef are given almost nothing to do.Only Stéphane Audran stands out in the part of Landru's naïve young mistress, Fernande.
Charles Denner, on the other hand, oddly directed by Chabrol, is a physical lookalike of the "sieur de Gambais" but fails to deliver both charm and terror.
It looks as though Claude Chabrol ,who is so at ease with what I would call "domestic" monsters ( Jean Yanne in "Le Boucher" and "Que la Bête meure", Michel Bouquet in "La Femme infidèle" and several others )was petrified by his cold-hearted, cynical monster, with absolutely no redeeming features. He did not manage to bring life to his character.
Landru, too monstrous a monster , even for Chabrol ?