Descente Aux Enfers (1986)

Original title

Descente aux enfers

Directed by

Francis Girod

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 25m

Rated

U

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 44 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An alcoholic writer and his wife with a hidden past go on vacation to Haiti. Their strained relationship faces more pressure from the dark secrets and dangerous experiences that come up.

tensebleakslow-burnclaustrophobicmelancholicgrittypsychologically intense

What happens

Descent into Hell (French: Descente aux enfers) is a 1986 French psychological thriller film directed by Francis Girod from a screenplay he co-wrote with Jean-Loup Dabadie, based on the 1955 novel The Wounded and the Slain by David Goodis. The film stars Claude Brasseur and Sophie Marceau as a married couple—she with a dark secret in her past and he, an author suffering from both writer's block and alcoholism—who undergo experiences which strain their relationship to breaking point while vacationing in Haiti. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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