
À double tour
1959

Representation Score
Fair
1967
NRDirector
Claude Chabrol
Runtime
98 minutes
Average Rating
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Claude Chabrol's thriller dismantles bourgeois morality and social hierarchies. By focusing on a female protagonist's ability to drive the story and suspicion, it questions traditional gender roles and the stability of the domestic patriarch. However, the film reflects a highly homogenous and Eurocentric social environment, limiting its scope in terms of racial and cultural diversity. Despite this, it offers a critical perspective on established social orders and capitalist corruption, even if it adheres to mid-century cinematic conventions.
Category Breakdown
The film includes a gigolo husband, a role that challenges traditional marriage norms. Although his sexuality is not explicitly stated, his transactional relationships question conventional domestic arrangements.
The story is driven by a female character's suspicion and ability to act, shifting power dynamics away from traditional male-dominated narratives and subverting the mid-century domestic patriarch archetype.
The setting appears to inhabit a highly homogenous, Eurocentric upper-class milieu. There is no evidence of racial blending or non-Anglo-Saxon majority casting within the narrative.
The story critiques Western capitalist institutions through the lens of a champagne tycoon. It explores the moral instability and systemic injustice inherent in high-society structures.
There is no discernible evidence regarding the portrayal of physical or neurodivergent disabilities in the film.
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Official Synopsis
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.

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