The Color of Lies

Crime, Drama · 1999Not Rated

In one of his finest late-career films, Chabrol once again uses a murder mystery to expose the underlying tensions and deceptions of a close-knit community. When a 10-year-old’s violated body is found in the woods of a Breton fishing village, suspicion falls on an unsuccessful painter (Jacques Gamblin) whose wife (Sandrine Bonnaire) is tempted by the advances of a conceited TV personality (Antoine de Caunes in a brilliant performance). Characteristically, Chabrol is less interested in whodunit mechanics than in dissecting a culture of lies-from advertising to adultery-that permeates modern society.

Starring

Sandrine Bonnaire, Françoise Benoît-Fresco, Françoise Benoît-Fresco, Jacques Gamblin, Marin Karmitz, Marin Karmitz, Antoine de Caunes, Grégoire Delage, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Bernard Verley, Eduardo Serra

Director

Claude Chabrol