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Just Before Nightfall (French: Juste avant la nuit) is a 1971 French crime drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Stéphane Audran and Michel Bouquet.
Mar 31, 1971 · Just Before Nightfall: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Michel Bouquet, Stéphane Audran, François Périer, Jean Carmet. Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier.
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- Crime, Drama
- Claude Chabrol
- 1971-03-31
An in-depth review of the film Juste avant la nuit (1971), aka Just Before Nightfall, directed by Claude Chabrol, featuring Michel Bouquet, Stephane Audran, Francois Perier.
- Claude Chabrol
Mar 12, 2021 · Claude Chabrol, one of Mid Century Cinema’s favorite directors, is said to have made close to seventy feature films. We’ve only seen fifty-four of them, but very likely our favorite is Just Before Nightfall. One of the great films of the seventies, it premiered in Paris on March 31, 1971.
Just Before Nightfall is a film directed by Claude Chabrol with Henri Attal, Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Jean Carmet .... Year: 1971. Original title: Juste avant la nuit. Synopsis: Charles Masson, an advertising executive, is having an affair with Laura, the wife of his best friend, the architect François Tellier.
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- France
- Jean Rabier
- Claude Chabrol
"Just Before Nightfall" is one of Chabrol's best films on his favorite theme. He has, it turns out, a great deal more to say about his characters than we think at first, and after the blonde's murder the movie proceeds through guilt, remorse and forgiveness - and finds none of them as enduring as middle class respectability.
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In Claude Chabrol's Juste avant la nuit ("Just Before Nightfall"), a married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in. It's about guilt, the urge to confess, and how to live with a moral pain when nobody even tries to look.
