LA VÉRITÉ
In memory of screen legend (and polarizing celebrity) Brigitte Bardot, we present the 1960 French drama where a liberated small-town girl stands on trial to determine whether she killed her lover in a crime of passion or in premeditation.
The beautiful and ravishing Dominique Marceau (Bardot) escapes her provincial life for freewheeling bohemian Paris only to find herself standing trial for the accidental murder of her lover (Sami Frey), a young but promising conductor. As the prosecution and the defence spar over what led her to such violence, Dominique’s life is laid bare. Clouzot’s film pushed the boundaries of its era, a scathing examination of the way in which patriarchal societies exert control over women through hypocritical moralizing. The director, already known for ‘Le Corbeau’, Diabolique’ and ‘The Wages of Fear’ at the time, captured Bardot at her most dynamic in a performance which rivals any of her work with New Wave colleagues.
France 1960 Henri-Georges Clouzot 127m
