The Flower of Evil (2003)
- Original title
- La Fleur du mal
- Directed by
- Claude Chabrol
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Rated
- AL
- Rating
- 6.1 of 10 from 81 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 wealthy French family in Bordeaux is thrown into crisis when one of them runs for office. An anonymous pamphlet revives a decades-old murder scandal and hints at Nazi connections from the past.
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What happens
The Flower of Evil (original title: La fleur du mal) is a 2003 French psychological thriller film by Claude Chabrol that deals with incest, murder and betrayal. It has nothing to do with Les Fleurs du mal, the volume of French symbolist poetry by Charles Baudelaire, the "Fleurs du Mal", an episode of the television series The Batman, or Les Fleurs du mal a 1957 album by Léo Ferré. Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are involved in social turmoil when one (Anne) runs for political office due to an anonymous political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal and Nazi involvement within the family. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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