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Violette Nozière

1978 · 124 min

A cool, clinical plunge into a true crime, watching a young woman's double life curdle into something methodical and chilling.

Tagline: The Story of an Extraordinary Crime.
Overview: Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: crime
deception
family
identity
betrayal
Places: big city
home
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: true story
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scales, 0 to 10
Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	2
Horror	3
Humour	2
Realism	8
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	8
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	7

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Genres: crime, drama, thriller
Directed by: Claude Chabrol
Written by: Claude Chabrol, Hervé Bromberger
Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Stéphane Audran, Jean Carmet, Jean-François Garreaud, Lisa Langlois, Bernard Alane, François Maistre, Jean Dalmain
Music: Pierre Jansen
Cinematography: Jean Rabier
Runtime: 124 min
Country: France, Canada
Languages: French

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