1986 · thriller · crime · mystery
Inspector Lavardin
Directed by Claude Chabrol1h 40m1986
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Our read: Inspector Lavardin (1986) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded thriller · crime · mystery entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured thriller / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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