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Director:

Claude Chabrol

Writers:

Odile Barski (writer)
Hervé Bromberger (writer)
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Release Date:

7 October 1978 (USA) more

Tagline:

The Story of an Extraordinary Crime

Awards:

2 wins & 4 nominations more

NewsDesk:
(3 articles)

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)

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Cast

  (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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Additional Details

Also Known As:

Violette (USA)
Violette Noziere (Canada: English title)
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Runtime:

124 min

Country:

France | Canada

Language:

French

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Sound Mix:

Mono

Filming Locations:

Paris, France

Company:

Cinévidéo more


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Chabrol's cultic masterpiece, 10 September 2008
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Author: Jiri Severa from Canada

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 !

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