Just Before Nightfall

Wee Hunk

A soap-opera that is very badly lighted. When the lighting draws attention to itself, you know it's bad. It has that soap-opera logic to it. "I understand that you slept with every available woman in Port Charles including your Mom, but you can't tell Lisa because it would break her heart!" Yeah. Ok. Did I mention the horrible lighting?

Michael H. CLAES

BOUQUET, AUDRAN, PERIER, ZARDI, DUCHAUSSOY, CARMET : dérapage au cœur de la bourgeoisie parisienne. Des mœurs libérées à la confession sacrificielle === From sex games gone wrong within the smooth and rich Parisian liberated bourgeoisie and its mores slippage in the heart of the Parisian bourgeoisie, to the ultimate sacrificial confession ===== https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yew8jd-9AY

Francisco R.

A brilliant moral justification of murder, this time told with such affection for its bourgeoise characters the tone becomes almost elegiac. With stunning production design and cinematography, this is one of Chabrol's most neglected works.

redux

Another mid-period attempt from Chabrol at making a souflé, ending up burnt and burst flat, served with the usual too-generous helping of useless red herrings.

FISCHER

Encore une dramatique "bourgeoise" version Chabrol, qui malgré de lourdes invraisemblances psychologiques, arrive tout de même à retraduire le sordide climat de suffisance et de lâcheté d'une sphère sociale en putréfaction et sans cesse renaissante. www.cinefiches.com

AVA

Meisterhaft! Hervorragende Darstellung durch St.Audran und M.Bouquet.Unverkennbar die erneute Essenz,die sich durch alle Chabrollfilme zieht.Die Moral.

Paolo Simeone

L'anno dopo Petri con Indagine.. veniva fuori questo film sulla borghesia al posto del potere che si auto-assolve dai propri crimini. Senza quei picchi visionari, certamente meno immaginifico, ma comunque bello eh.

noice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vml5USXTlyU