VHS : Flower of Evil (2003) (Sub)
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starring: Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon, Mélanie Doutey, Bernard Le Coqdirected by: Claude Chabrol
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781594351822
Format: Color, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1594351821
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Release Date: April 20, 2004
Running Time: 104 minutes
Sales Rank: 69446
Studio: Lions Gate
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Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Murder, elections and secrets...all the things that make the new French grande bourgeoisie so interesting
We are the eyes of the camera, moving from the dark shadows of trees, across a gravel driveway, through the entrance of a large house, past an open door where a maid is setting out dishes on a table, up the stairs and past a room where a young woman is sitting on the floor, clasping her knees, down the hallway and into a bedroom, then past the corpse on the floor to focus on his hand grasping the coverlet. All the while we hear a cheap, romantic song coming from a radio somewhere in the house... ... Read More
Rating: - "Everything's a secret here"
"The flower of evil" (= "La fleur du mal"), directed by Claude Chabrol, is centered on an upper middle-class family, the Charpin-Vasseurs. This family seems perfect but has dark and deep secrets, as seen from the very first scenes of this movie. What is wrong with the members of this family? Chabrol's mission is to make us care about the answer to this question...
The story begins with a crime, and continues many years later, when Francois Vasseur (Benoît Magimel), returns home after ... Read More
Rating:  - Chabrol watching the flowers grow
La Fleur du Mal aka The Flower of Evil isn't quite Chabrol on auto-pilot, but he's clearly more interested in the usual bourgeois side issues than the identity of the author of an anonymous leaflet that threatens Natalie Baye's campaign to become mayor of a small town by raking over the coals of the family's history of murder and Nazi collaboration. History is obviously going to repeat itself, but there's no sense of impending dread, merely a feeling that Chabrol has left himself too little time to ... Read More
Rating: - Actually the flower is not so evil
This is a pleasant film by Claude Chabrol, nothing like the forbidding title "La Fleur du Mal" would suggest. I say pleasant in that there is nothing gross or ugly about it or really shocking, and it ends in a way that most viewers would find agreeable. There is some dark suggestion of family evil and a kind of playful non-incest and some skeletons in the closet from the Nazi occupation and one dead man at the end, but otherwise this is almost a comedy.
It is not, however, in my opinion ... Read More
Rating: - an evil flower?
The end left me in the always uncomfortable, "that's really it?" zone?
But, I still really liked it: The french pacing. The odd Aunt Line. The pretty daughter & kinda cute son thing. I love run on film credits.
Incest?
Nazi's?
Hinted, never really explained.
I don't need all the cards on the table. Ambiguity rocks. But this wasn't ambiguity, it was unfinished.
I did enjoy it though. What are you going to do?
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