Synopsis
"The Flower of Evil" (La Fleur du mal, 2003) is a Claude Chabrol drama you can watch online on iFILM. In a prosperous Bordeaux family, Anne (Nathalie Baye) is running for mayor when anonymous flyers start circulating among voters — packed with details of a wartime murder the family had counted on staying buried.
Three generations of secrets begin pressing outward at once. Her stepson François (Benoît Magimel) and stepdaughter Michèle are drawn to each other in ways the household can't accommodate, adding a second fault line to an already fragile situation. An elderly aunt (Suzanne Flon) watches everything and says very little.
Chabrol operates slowly, with the patience of a naturalist studying a specimen through glass. The scandal doesn't build through dramatic reveals but through small shifts in who looks at whom — and when they look away. Stream "The Flower of Evil" (2003) on iFILM.
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