Claude Chabrol: Elements of Crime
This polarising work, both lauded and loathed by queer audiences, mines the seduction of privilege – a gender-swapped riff on Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley. Two women – one wealthy and idle, the other sharp and hungry – fall into a tangled relationship over a winter in Saint-Tropez. The film marked Chabrol’s creative and personal partnership with Stéphane Audran, and announced a new, more baroque register in his work.
