Claude Chabrol gives ample opportunity for his audience to take pokes at those whacky French.
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10/07/03
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The Flower of Evil (2003)
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Reviews Counted:59
Fresh:38
Rotten:21
Average Rating:6.2/10
Theatrical Release:Oct 10, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: Claude Chabrol's 50th feature, THE FLOWER OF EVIL, feels like familiar territory for this New Wave master. A cryptic opening scene, in which the camera floats through abandoned rooms of the... [More]
Starring: Nathalie Baye, Benoit Magimel, Bernard Lecoq, Suzanne Flon
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Reviews for The Flower of Evil
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.
11/28/03
Top CriticOne of Chabrol's lesser works.
11/16/03
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06/22/04
As usual, Chabrol manages to get us worked up over these people, but any further investment is hard to justify.
11/14/03
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12/02/03
Uninteresting characters, slow storytelling and the deadly dullness of the film's overall talky quality ... take away any potential sting that the Gallic helmer had envisioned for his big-screen critique.
10/05/03
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.
11/07/03
Top CriticStylish, ingenious and gleaming with charm, wit and malice, it's another expert blend of domestic drama and crime thriller, a vivisection of the bourgeoisie.
11/06/03
Top CriticChabrol's filmmaking has rarely seemed more assured, elegant, and intelligent.
10/09/03
Academic and passionless.
09/17/03
An elegant, gracefully made movie, but it unreels with something of the same dull sense of preordainment.
11/14/03
[Not] a hint of suspense or even foreboding. Chabrol might as easily have been telling about a bridge tournament as about betrayal and murder.
11/14/03
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.
11/06/03
Top CriticLeave reason behind, back in steerage class, and simply breathe in the foibles of the (upper) crust on this crème brûlée.
01/09/04
Neither as shocking nor as enlightening as it obviously intends to be -- or as it believes itself to be.
04/23/04
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.
04/09/04
Sure, the actors are beautiful, (so are the houses), but nothing draws you into the story -- even the scandals are talked about rather than depicted.
10/10/03
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