Web of Passion
1959 French-Italiyn film by Claude Chabrol, Philippe de Broca
Web of Passion (also released as Leda, original French title: À double tour) is a 1959 French/Italian psychological thriller film directed by Claude Chabrol and based on the novel The Key to Nicholas Street by American writer Stanley Ellin. It was Chabrol's first film in colour and his first thriller, which would be his genre of choice for the rest of his career. The film had a total of 1,445,587 admissions in France.
Plot
In a country mansion in Provence, Henri and Thérèse live in grand style with their two grown-up children, Richard and Élisabeth. A small villa next door is taken by a beautiful young Italian artist called Leda, who turned up with an ebullient Hungarian friend Laszlo. Leda has started a romance with Henri while Laszlo has got engaged to Élisabeth, to the dismay of her mother. Seeing Leda's pain at being in love with a married man who still shares his wife's bed, Laszlo urges Henri to leave home and make a new life with Leda. The son Richard, seeing his mother's pain and shame if she loses her husband, goes secretly to the villa and kills Leda. After a peremptory investigation, the police arrest the innocent milkman. Working out that the person with motive and opportunity was Richard, Laszlo waterboards him in a pond and extracts a confession for the ears of Richard's family only.
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