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The Passion of Slow Fire (1960)

The Passion of Slow Fire poster
Original title
La Mort de Belle
Directed by
Édouard Molinaro
Genre
crime film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 31m
Rating
6.7 of 10 from 16 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is suspected of murdering a young woman. He tries to prove his innocence while under police pressure.

tenseslow-burnmelancholicbleakcerebralsuspensefulsomberclaustrophobic

What happens

The Passion of Slow Fire (French: La Mort de Belle) is a 1961 French crime film directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Jean Desailly and based on the novel La mort de Belle by Georges Simenon. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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