fbpx Biennale Cinema 2017 | Claude Chabrol - L’oeil du malin (The Third Lover)
La Biennale di Venezia

Your are here

Cinema

Claude Chabrol - L’oeil du malin (The Third Lover)



France, Italy (1962) / 91’
language French
cast Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer, Erika Tweer, Michael Munzer, Daniel Boulanger, Claude Romet, Louis Le Pin, Jean Davis Badin
screenplay Claude Chabrol

cinematographer Jean Rabier
editor Jacques Gaillard
music Pierre Jansen

sound Jean-Claude Marchetti
restoration curated by Studiocanal
with the support of Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée
film laboratory Hiventy

 

SYNOPSIS

Albin Mercier, a failed journalist, is writing an article in Germany. When he meets a couple who seems very close, he is jealous and sets out to destroy their relationship. He discovers that the young woman has a lover and blackmails her emotionally.

DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT

L’oeil du malin will be seen, I hope, as a crime movie. It will be the first time I have made a film in a particular genre and respected the rules throughout. (...) But beside its genre, this film has another facet: it is a pathological study of envy. The whole film is told by the character played by Charrier (...) In this film, whose plot is quite simple and lends to suspense, I have tried to bring out ideas by the use of objects, the elements, lighting, faces, voices, the actors’ movements, the camera’s movements, their immobility, lenses and point of view shots.

L’ago nel pagliaio, conversation with Claude Chabrol in Stefano Francia di Celle, Enrico Ghezzi and Roberto Turigliatto (eds.), L’œil du malin. Claude Chabrol. Scritti e interviste (Turin: Museo Nazionale del Cinema, 2006).

Sala Volpi

LUNGOMARE MARCONI
30126 LIDO DI VENEZIA
TEL. +39 0415218711
info@labiennale.org

Discover the venue

See on Google Maps

Share this page on

Share on FacebookShare on XShare on LinkedINSend via WhatsApp
Biennale Cinema
Biennale Cinema