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Violette Nozière (1978)
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7 October 1978 (USA)
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The Story of an Extraordinary Crime
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2 wins
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French Actress Isabelle Huppert To Receive Efa's European Achievement Award
(From iCelebz. 6 October 2009, 6:17 AM, PDT)
French Actress Huppert Named As Cannes Head
(From WENN. 2 January 2009, 8:16 AM, PST)
(From iCelebz. 6 October 2009, 6:17 AM, PDT)
French Actress Huppert Named As Cannes Head
(From WENN. 2 January 2009, 8:16 AM, PST)
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Chabrol's cultic masterpiece
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Isabelle Huppert | ... | Violette Nozière |
 | Stéphane Audran | ... | Germaine Nozière |
| Jean Carmet | ... | Baptiste Nozière |
| Jean-François Garreaud | ... | Jean Dabin |
| Guy Hoffman | ... | Le juge / Judge (as Guy Hoffmann) |
| Jean Dalmain | ... | Émile |
 | Lisa Langlois | ... | Maddy |
| François Maistre | ... | Monsieur Mayeul |
| Philippe Procot | ... | Me Vésine-Larue |
| Bernard Alane | ... | Le fils Pinguet |
| Mario David | ... | Le directeur de la prison / Prison director |
| Henri-Jacques Huet | ... | Le commissaire Guillaume / Commissioner Guilleaume |
| Fabrice Luchini | ... | Camus, l'étudiant |
| Greg Germain | ... | Le musicien noir (as Grégory Germain) |
| Zoé Chauveau | ... | Zoé |
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124 min
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Color (Eastmancolor)
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Violette Noziere will probably never receive the critical acclaim it deserves as it is just too subtle. As a psychological drama, the movie is simply without peer. It is based on a true-crime shocker of an eighteen-year old in 1930's who poisoned her parents evidently to get her hands on their money and then claimed her father (who dies in her attack) raped her. Condemned to die, she was subsequently pardoned and the verdict against her was eventually annulled. In the hands of a lesser artist than Chabrol, a script for Violette Noziere film would be almost guaranteed to end up as a banal thesis of one sort or another, either condemning or exculpating the heroine.
But Chabrol found two brilliant interpreters of the "cold woman syndrome" in Stephane Audran and the débutante Isabelle Huppert. With a masterful hand he drafts a black comedy of their mother-daughter rivalry in a bizarre, oppressively minuscule apartment, ending up in the death of the gentle, submissive, innocent "dad" (Jean Carmet). Isabelle's grasp of Violette's teenage psychosis leading up to the killing and after, is an acting masterpiece rarely seen. Best Chabrol ever, in my book !