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The Flower of Evil
Directed by
Claude Chabrol
R
2003
1h 44m
Drama
,
Thriller
6.4
65%
49%
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Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
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Cast of The Flower of Evil
Nathalie Baye
Anne Charpin-Vasseur
Benoît Magimel
François Vasseur
Suzanne Flon
Aunt Line
Bernard Le Coq
Gérard Vasseur
Thomas Chabrol
Matthieu Lartigue
Mélanie Doutey
Michèle Charpin-Vasseur
Henri Attal
Fanny's Father-in-law
Kevin Ahyi
First Kid
Françoise Bertin
Thérèse
Jérôme Bertin
Volunteer
Caroline Baehr
Fanny
Didier Bénureau
Brissot
Yvon Crenn
Yves Pouët
Michèle Dascain
Marthe
Jean-Marc Druet
Lab Assistant
Michel Herbault
Le maire
Edmond Kastelnik
First Election Official
Marius de Laage
Second Kid
François Maistre
Jules Labière
Isabelle Mamère
Journaliste
Juliette Meyniac
Hélène
Jean-Pierre Marin
Second Election Official
Yves Pignot
Pierre Vasseur
Léa Pellepaut
Drugstore Saleswoman
Dominique Pivain
Dominique
Valérie Rojan
Gérard's Secretary
Nicolas Girard Deltruc
Laboratory Assistant (Uncredited)
Claude Chabrol
Director / Writer
Louise L. Lambrichs
Writer
Caroline Eliacheff
Writer
Marin Karmitz
Producer
The Flower of Evil Ratings & Reviews
Slant Magazine
Budd Wilkins
Like Nightcap, The Flower of Evil is concerned with an "original sin" and the seeming inevitability of its repetition.
Detroit Free Press
John Monaghan
The strength of this movie is how it starts as a standard whodunit only to become something else: a cunning Chabrol study of incest and old money peppered with a wicked sense of humor.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Leave reason behind, back in steerage class, and simply breathe in the foibles of the (upper) crust on this crème brûlée.
Arizona Republic
Richard Nilsen
Each of the characters in the film is so real, so fully drawn, that you feel you know him or her as a person, not as fiction.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
One of Chabrol's lesser works.
San Francisco Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
Chabrol's examination of intergenerational guilt takes awhile to arrive at the station, but the characters and dialogue -- screenplay by Caroline Eliacheff -- are sophisticated and properly witty.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
As usual, Chabrol manages to get us worked up over these people, but any further investment is hard to justify.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
I feel such an affection for Chabrol and his work that I probably can't see The Flower of Evil as it would be experienced by a first-time viewer.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
This three-generation melodrama, set in the Bordeaux region, may be just an elegant shadow of 'the gallic Hitchcock,' but even pale and dry, it's still Chabrol and sippable.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Stylish, ingenious and gleaming with charm, wit and malice, it's another expert blend of domestic drama and crime thriller, a vivisection of the bourgeoisie.
L.A. Weekly
Ella Taylor
Although impeccably acted and absorbing enough as a family drama, the movie is superfluously littered with broad hints as to its deeper meanings.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Eminently watchable because of the care and precision Chabrol takes in the interaction among his characters.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
I would prefer to think of it as a masterly work of the artist's late period rather than as the tired product of his old age.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
This is another gratifying gem from a master.
Newsday
Gene Seymour
With characteristic dispassion and Chardonnay-dry wit, Chabrol gleefully pries open another can of worms buried within the history of a well-to-do provincial family.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
It's a drawn-out look at politics that's largely devoid of the trademark humor that long ago got New Wave veteran Chabrol labeled the Gallic Hitchcock.
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
While it's not quite as satisfying as his underappreciated Merci pour le chocolat (2000), it's still nasty fun at the expense of the upper middle class.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Ms. Flon almost achieves for the movie what her character does for her relatives -- she's just not enough.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Wonderfully mordant, dry-eyed family saga.
Village Voice
Jessica Winter
Another tastefully baroque roasting of petty bourgeois rites within suffocating domestic environs.
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