1978 · crime · period · drama
Violette Nozière
Directed by Claude Chabrol2h 4m1978
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
Our read: Violette Nozière (1978) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded crime · period · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, measured crime / period, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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