98 minutes
8/23/1989
In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette, a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin, a charming aristocrat, and returned with him to live on his country estate. There, she begins to discover that all is not as it seemed, and beneath her groom's charming exterior is an undreamt-of savagery. She forms an alliance with her husband's much saner brother Bastien which saves her in the end, but not before she must go on trial for the murder of her husband.
Béatrice Dalle
as Violette
Philippe Volter
as Gustave
Stéphane Freiss
as Bastien
Geneviève Page
as Nathalie Dupin
Michel Duchaussoy
as Investigating judge
Hervé Laudière
as Antoine
Jenny Clève
as Anna Bourderias
Pierre Vial
as Dr. Charles
Jacques David
as Le président Boissot
Claudine Delvaux
as Rose Charles
Pierre Romans
as Le curé