À Double Tour

Screening on Film

Directed by Claude Chabrol.
With Madeline Robinson, Antonella Lualdi, Jean-Paul Belmondo.
France/Italy, 1959, 35mm, color, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.

One of the first films of the French New Wave, Á Double Tour is a psychological thriller about a dysfunctional bourgeoisie family and its disruption by an ill-mannered visitor (Belmondo, shortly before becoming an international star with Godard’s Breathless) who instigates a series of events that eventually lead to murder. Though the influence of Hitchcock in the film’s stylization and use of suspense is undeniable, the film bears the unmistakable imprint of Chabrol.