Malvern French Film Centre
English title: A Judgement In Stone
Director: Claude Chabrol
Certificate: 15
Psychological Thriller
1995
Running time: 1hr 51mins
French with English subtitles
Claude Chabrol, master of suspense, directs this perfectly constructed psychological thriller that builds to a terrifying climax. It’s a Ruth Rendell adaptation translated to rural France that explores the darkness lurking just beneath the surface of the French bourgeois. The new live-in maid of a wealthy family is led astray by Isabelle Huppert playing an eccentric local post mistress with a grudge against the family.
