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Tic Toc M I often think of how "Eyes Wide Shut" - a film I don't like - was promoted as being about "sexual obsession and jealousy". "Eyes Wide Shut" WISHES it was this movie (french title: L'Enfer, English title: Hell, American title: Torment) (confusingly, this is one of two films entitled "L'Enfer" that stars Emmanuele Beart). This is MASTERFULLY directed by Chabrol, and impeccably acted, especially by Beart. Francois Cluzet plays her super jealous husband to absolute madness. Sexual obsession and jealousy, that's what this movie is about. It reminds me of a great Italian comedy with Claudia Cardinale that is hard to find, "The Magnificent Cuckold" (1964). This is no comedy though, but it's a little like a Hitchcockian version of that movie. My favorite Chabrol movie is "Les Biches" and after that probably "The Butcher"....this one would come after those two. It might even be number two, not sure. As soon as it was over, I was so taken with Emmanuelle Beart I watched "La Belle Noiseuse", a four-hour Rivette film that I liked, but I prefer "L'Enfer". Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 05/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Claude Chabrol made this film from a screenplay by Henri-Georges Clouzot, who never finished his version of the film when he started making it back in 1964. Paul (François Cluzet) and Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart) have a relationship that falls apart due to his jealousy. L'Enfer means the "inferno of Hell" and that's what they both go through, all because Paul assumes that his wife is sleeping with anyone and everyone. But is she just doing these things to drive him mad? Or is she the living embodiment of a Tex Avery cartoon, the kind of woman that men can't control themselves around, and perhaps most frightening to men, one that knows it and uses it? I'd say that at the least, I would not want to stay at the hotel that Paul is allowing to spiral madly out of control. That said, every man wants to marry a supermodel but is not ready for what work that entails. When everyone wants what you have — and you know it — and you're as despicable a person as Paul is, there's no way that your life can ever go well. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review david f This study of marital jealousy is kind of bonkers but I do think it has a few insights and careful observations on the topic of the green eyed monster. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Descent into jealous madness is never made clear which adds to the terror of imagination and reality for a man spiraling into mental and emotional purgatory; Beart is an ideal manifestation of the object of affection Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member Super good actors, very good story and flow. End totally unexpected for me. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member One of Chabrol's darkest psychological studies with amazing performances especially from Francois Cluzet. L'enfer could have the signature of Polanski. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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