Overview
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
Director and cast
- Claude Chabrol Director
- Sandrine Bonnaire as Vivianne Sterne
- Jacques Gamblin as René Sterne
- Antoine de Caunes as Germain-Roland Desmot
- Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as Frédérique Lesage
- Bernard Verley as Inspecteur Loudun
- Bulle Ogier as Évelyne Bordier
- Pierre Martot as Regis Marchal
- Noël Simsolo as Monsieur Bordier
- Rodolphe Pauly as Victor
- Adrienne Pauly as Anna
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