À Double Tour
(Web of Passion)
Screening on Film
Directed by Claude Chabrol.
With Bernadette Lafont, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean-Paul Belmondo.
France , 1959, 35mm, color, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.
With Bernadette Lafont, Jacques Dacqmine, Jean-Paul Belmondo.
France , 1959, 35mm, color, 110 min.
French with English subtitles.
Through a fascinatingly labyrinthine narrative, filled with flashbacks, Claude Chabrol explores the impact on a bourgeois family of two outsiders: a beautiful and mysterious neighbor called Léda (Antonella Lualdi) and an uncouth Hungarian named Laszlo (Belmondo, who had just played a Hungarian named Laszlo in Godard’s Breathless). The story, adapted by screenwriter Paul Gégauff from The Key to Nicholas Street by noted mystery novelist Stanley Ellin, involves an oedipal sexual triangle and murder—the basic components of many Chabrol movies to come. His first thriller and his first work in color, À Double Tour boasts virtuoso camerawork by cinematographer Henri Decae.
