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Flagrant désir

1986 · 110 min

A brooding, slow-burning French crime drama where a suspicious death in a wealthy winegrowing family unearths buried secrets and simmering tensions.

Directed by
Claude Faraldo
Genres
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Sam Waterston, Marisa Berenson, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
Overview
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?

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Directed by
Claude Faraldo
Genres
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Starring
Sam Waterston, Marisa Berenson, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu
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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • mystery
  • family
  • deception
  • class
  • death
Places
  • countryside
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror2
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Genres
crime, drama, mystery
Directed by
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Starring
Sam Waterston, Marisa Berenson, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Lauren Hutton, Arielle Dombasle, Anne Roussel, François Dunoyer, François Dyrek
Runtime
110 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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