La fleur du mal
The flower of evil- Director
- Claude Chabrol
- Country
- France
- Year
- 2002
- Genre
- Fiction
- Scriptwriters
- Claude Chabrol / Caroline Eliacheff / Louise L. Lambrichs
- Cast
- Nathalie Baye / Benoît Magimel / Bernard Le Coq / Suzanne Flon / Mélanie Doutey / Thomas Chabrol / Caroline Baehr / Henri Attal / Jérôme Bertin / Françoise Bertin / Michel Herbault / Dominique Pivain
- Production
- MK2 Productions / France 3 Cinéma / Canal Plus
Storyline
If time exists, can guilt – like some illnesses – be passed down from generation to generation? Can a sin that hasn’t been expiated have an effect on the guilty party and his or her descendents? At the end of the Second World War, and its concomitant settling of scores among collaborators, a woman will be acquitted of a crime that she committed. The film takes place in the present day, during the last municipal elections when another crime will be committed. Who is guilty? The person who commits the crime or the person who takes the blame for it? And what if time didn’t exist?Festivals & Academy awards and others
San Sebastián International Film Festival 2003
Zabaltegi
Berlin International Film Festival 2003
Competition
Call for proposals Distribution Automatic
Year 2005
Call number 02/2005
Media support 5,574.65
Distribution territories:
Austria / Belgium / Spain / Ireland (Eire) / United Kingdom
