The actors, the themes, the story are familiar for Claude Chabrol public. The murder represents only pretext for a version of older Rodion Raskolnikoff . The levels of guilt and fear and loneliness and need to be punished the attitude about the thief and the realism of a not plausible, at the first sigh, story, are the virtues of this film of seductive ins and clothes, about a character who seems predictable and showing, scene by scene, the entire universe grace of art of Michel Bouquet and admirable definitions of marriage , in fair terms, A film remembering Ingmar Bergman universe, remaining, in profound sense, a beautiful Chabrol.
Review of Just Before Nightfall
