Friday, May 3, 2013

Twist (1976)

FFCM (France)
Directed by Claude Chabrol
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Pathfinder)

Disappointing Chabrol "comedy" about unhappily married writer Bruce Dern and his sex starved wife Stephane Audran living in Paris. She has frequent fantasies, always shown overexposed to distinguish them from reality, of her husband having affairs with various women. Eventually those fantasies turn to murder, suicide and other unpleasantries. She fakes his signature, sells the apartment and buys a crumbling mansion in the countryside to try to get away from it all. Unfortunately, they are just as miserable, and the fantasies continue. Bruce eventually asks his lover Ann-Margret to move to New York with him, but when she refuses he reluctantly returns home and decides to try to make it work out with his wife. Dern's character is pathetic, the fantasies are often silly and Ann-Margret has a constant smirk on her face.

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