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A Murder Is a Murder
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
| Release : | 1972 |
| Rating : | 5.9 |
| Studio : | Tritone Cinematografica, Planfilm, Films de l'Épée, |
| Crew : | Director of Photography, Director, |
| Cast : | Jean-Claude Brialy Stéphane Audran Robert Hossein Michel Serrault Catherine Spaak |
| Genre : | Drama Crime |
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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.
Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.
The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.
The turn of the decade (sixties/seventies) was Chabrol 's heyday.To reproduce his (commercial and critical) success,the same ingredients were chosen(a murder mystery,a bourgeois house,Stephane Audran,Chabrol's then wife playing parts of twin sisters -after Olivia de Havilland,why not her?-,Chabrol in the flesh in a cameo -he's the Pullman's inspector-)to give the flick the aura of .... an ersatz Chabrol movie.There are ,at a pinch ,two good suspenseful scenes; the wheelchair on the road,pursued by a car,and the hanged man in the graveyard which pack a real wallop.Etienne Périer was to continue in the ersatz Chabrol vein with "la main à couper",but he was luckier with his "un si joli village" (1978) which was closer to Cayatte/Boisset social criticism.
