Synopsis
Just Before Nightfall (Juste avant la nuit, 1971) is a French crime drama directed by Claude Chabrol — watch it online on iFILM. Michel Bouquet and Stéphane Audran star as a husband and wife whose marriage absorbs something it shouldn't be able to.
Charles Mason strangles his mistress Laura during one of their meetings. She was the wife of his best friend. The police suspect nothing. Charles confesses to his own wife. Then to Laura's husband. Neither one reports him. They absorb the confession quietly, the way a family absorbs almost anything when the alternative is worse.
Chabrol made this as the third part of an informal bourgeois cycle, following La Femme Infidèle (1969) and Le Boucher (1970). The crime is almost beside the point — the real subject is a man who wants to be punished and finds that everyone around him refuses. Michel Bouquet carries it all in his face. Stream Just Before Nightfall (1971) on iFILM.
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