The Adultress
Director:
Marcel CarnéCámara:
Roger HubertMúsica:
Maurice ThirietReparto:
Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Sylvie, Maria Pia Casilio, Paul Frankeur, Roland Lesaffre, Jacques Hilling, Madeleine Barbulée, Nerio Bernardi (más)Sinopsis(1)
A housewife gets fed up with her wimpy husband and conspires to kill him with the help of a brutal truckdriver with whom she's begun an affair. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
Reseñas (1)
I consider The Adultress to be one of the most interesting French films of the first half of the 1950s, with the perspective of time having gone by. This title is fully functional even today. By shifting Zola's original book half a century ahead, the motivations and mental processes of the (anti)heroes may seem a bit strange, but at least one realizes how fundamentally social morality has changed over the past few decades. Divorces and the general breakdown of families were considered serious failures, a disgrace during Zola's time, which everyone tried to avoid at all costs. Then, the two world wars shook society so much that divorce quickly became something acceptable and common. Overall impression: 80%.
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