Ten Days' Wonder (1971)
- Original title
- La Décade prodigieuse
- Directed by
- Claude Chabrol
- Genre
- drama film, crime film
- Country
- France, Italy
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Rated
- PG
- Rating
- 6.2 of 10 from 31 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A detective investigates a series of strange events involving a wealthy family. He uncovers secrets and hidden desires beneath their pious exterior. The film explores the dark relationship between art and money.
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What happens
Ten Days' Wonder (French: La Décade prodigieuse) is a 1971 murder-mystery film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Michel Piccoli, Anthony Perkins, Marlène Jobert and Orson Welles. It is based on the 1948 novel Ten Days' Wonder by Ellery Queen, with the detective renamed Paul Régis. It is the fourth film that Welles and Perkins appear in together after The Trial in 1962. Reviewing a revival of the film in 2018, Richard Brody wrote in The New Yorker "… it’s a minor masterwork of freakazoidal cinema.… Chabrol orchestrates the grandiose theatrical tension with giddily audacious cinematography…. He reveals ravenous depravity beneath pious displays of benevolence and warns of the dangerous marriage of money and art." (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Max et les Ferrailleurs (1971)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.