Death in a French Garden

Death in a French Garden (Péril en la demeure, 1985) is a French erotic thriller directed by Michel Deville — watch it online on iFILM. Christophe Malavoy, Nicole Garcia, and Michel Piccoli lead the cast.

A young guitar teacher takes a private engagement at a wealthy household. The wife gets bored. An affair starts quietly. Then he is attacked on the street and saved by a hired killer — which raises an immediate question about who hired him and why. Deville keeps the film hovering at that question without rushing to answer it. Each new scene rearranges what the previous ones seemed to establish. Piccoli does more with silence than most actors manage with dialogue. It is a thriller where the threat might be real or imagined, and the erotic tension and the suspense feed each other without either taking over. Stream Death in a French Garden online on iFILM.