Recencies van critici

Though the director would return to the Langian milieu with Docteur M and to psychosexual exploration with Jours tranquilles à clichy (both 1990), the lesser-seen Alice was the last and most personal of his outliers, and the only time he truly went through the looking glass.

As anomalous as it may seem next to his more famous works, Alice or the Last Escapade is profoundly Chabrolian... The comic absurdism that's always just beneath the surface explodes here, as when a funeral gathering at a café suddenly morphs into a riotous soiree. And Chabrol's preoccupation with intimations of hellfire, first noticed in his debut... and never fully repudiated, rears its head fragrantly as the story speeds toward a twisty climax of malevolent syringes and infernal portals.