Violette Nozière
From Sun 02 to Tue 04 FebClaude Chabrol’s Violette Nozière (1978) is a French psychological drama based on the true story of a young woman convicted of poisoning her parents in 1930s Paris. Through a series of flashbacks and a consummate art of the ellipsis, the film recounts Violette’s troubled life as she secretly spends her nights hanging around bars, grappling with her feelings of entrapment and her growing resentment towards her parents (Stéphane Audran and Jean Carmet). Violette Nozière contains the director’s signature mix of social satire, fraught family dynamics and psychological depth. As inscrutable Violette, young Isabelle Huppert gives her first chilling performance in a Chabrol film. It marks the beginning of a gripping cinematic collaboration between Huppert and Chabrol that led them to investigate the opacity of the human psyche and/or evil across three decades and seven films.
Introduction
The screening on 2 Feb will be introduced by Raphaëlle Moine, Professor of Film Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (IRCAV)
About Raphaëlle Moine
Raphaëlle Moine is Professor of Film Studies at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (IRCAV). She has published Les Genres du cinéma (2002), translated into English as Cinema Genre (2008), Remakes: les films français à Hollywood (2007), Les Femmes d’action au cinéma (2010), Vies héroïques : biopics masculins/biopics féminins (2017). She has edited a number of volumes, including most recently A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (with Alistair Fox, Michel Marie and Hilary Radner, 2015), L’Âge des stars : des images à l’épreuve du vieillissement (with Charles-Antoine Courcoux and Gwénaëlle Le Gras, 2018) and Is it French? Popular Postnational Screen Fiction From France (with Mary Harrod, 2024).