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Innocents with Dirty Hands
Innocents with Dirty Hands
7.6
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INNOCENTS WITH DIRTY HANDS

Les innocents aux mains sales

Directed by Claude Chabrol
France, Italy, 1975
Crime, Thriller

Synopsis

A philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. The murder goes according to plan until the next morning, when Julie discovers that her lover has disappeared and her husband’s bank account is empty.

Synopsis

A philandering wife plans to ill her alcoholic husband so she can run away with her lover. The murder goes according to plan until the next morning, when Julie discovers that her lover has disappeared and her husband’s bank account is empty.

Our take

French master Claude Chabrol directed this stylish and winding psychological thriller, adapted from a novel by Richard Neely. Darkly comedic, Innocents with Dirty Hands sees Romy Schneider star as a campy femme fatale who is cut off from the outside world but remains strong and vengeful.