Deep Water

Eaux profondes

France

1981

94 Min

Color

1.66:1

French

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Florence Delay, Michel Deville, Christopher Frank, Patricia Highsmith

CAST Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Sandrine Kljajic, Éric Frey, Christian Benedetti, Bruce Myers, Bertrand Bonvoisin, Jean-Luc Moreau, Robin Renucci, Philippe Clévenot, Martine Costes, Evelyne Didi, Jean-Michel Dupuis, Bernard Freyd, Anne Head, Maurice Jacquemont, Sylvie Orcier, Pierre Vial, Amélie Prévost

Vic Allen appears to accept his young wife Melanie’s flirtations with men of her own age with a generous insouciance. He amuses himself by scaring off her potential lovers by claiming that he killed one of their predecessors. This only increases his wife’s antagonism towards him, but Vic loves her too much to let her go. When Melanie’s next suitor is found dead in a swimming pool, she is convinced that her husband killed him, but she has no proof. Their psychological battle of wills has only just begun… —Filmsdefrance

Director

Michel Deville

Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter.

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

One of Deville’s comedies, La Lectrice (“The Reader”) was probably his biggest success with international audiences. La Lectrice is about a woman (played by Miou-Miou), who finds work reading novels for the blind but gradually finds herself unwittingly attracting a clientele of fetishists who enjoyed being read to. At one time his films were difficult to find in North America but presently(2007) seven of his films are available in DVD in the U.S.

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