The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidÃ¨le)

Starring:StÃ©phane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Michel Duchaussoy, Maurice Ronet, Louise Chevalier, Louise Rioton, Serge Bento, Henri Marteau, Guy Marly, FranÃ§ois Moro-Giafferi, Albert Minski, Dominique Zardi, Michel Charrel, Henri Attal, Jean-Marie Arnoux, StÃ©phane Di Napoli, Donatella Turri, Anne-Marie Peysson
Director: Claude Chabrol
Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
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"A change in my way of living would be dangerous."
The Unfaithful Wife (1969) - Claude Chabrol
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The Unfaithful Wife (La Femme infidèle)
Starring: Stéphane Audran , Michel Bouquet , Michel Duchaussoy , Maurice Ronet , and Louise Chevalier
Director: Claude Chabrol
Manufacturer: Pathfinder Home Ent.
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ASIN: B00007G1XQ
Release Date: 2003-01-21

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"A change in my way of living would be dangerous.".......2007-04-15

Claude Chabrol's film "The Unfaithful Wife" ("La Femme Infidele") centres on a married couple, Helene Desvallees (Stephane Audran) and her husband Charles (Michel Bouquet). An upper class couple, they live in a large country home with their only son, and Charles commutes to Paris daily. Charles begins to suspect that Helene is having an affair, and so he employs a private detective to investigate.

"The Unfaithful Wife" subtly hints at problems in the Desvallees' marriage, but this couple conforms to the coldest and politest behaviour at all times. Helene sprawls out invitingly on the bed, but Charles offers only a modicum of affection right before turning off the lights and rolling over to sleep. There's a problem here, but it's never addressed head-on. Instead the Desvallees maintain their normal, polite behaviour until their world is shattered beyond repair.

"The Unfaithful Wife" was remade as "Unfaithful" (directed by Adrian Lyne), and I have to say that this is one of the rare instances when I prefer the remake to the original. While the plot outline is essentially the same, "Unfaithful" in contrast is all stormy, sweaty uncontrollable passion. In Chabrol's film, Helene's affair with her paramour is almost as stilted as her marriage. Nonetheless, Chabrol fans will want to catch the film, and Stephane Audran is quite superb. In French with subtitles--displacedhuman

The Unfaithful Wife (1969) - Claude Chabrol.......2005-10-14

The Unfaithful Wife is another film dealing with murder by the French New Wave's most mainstream talent, Claude Chabrol. What makes Chabrol different than his many contemporaries who also worked in the thriller genre is his approach towards his actor's emotions. Chabrol stays far away from exposing his characters inner thoughts, and allows more subtle actions and gestures to tell the story. The Unfaithful Wife is a prime example of how to deal with murder in the most minimalistic fashion. Chabrol isn't concerned wth visual exuberance, or artistic integrity like some of his New Wave counterparts, instead he's concerned with building characters that are meaningful to the viewer in different ways based on interpretations. Done in his most prolific period, The Unfaithful Wife is one of Chabrol's most emotionally detached, and deadpan films that works because the characters are not easy to define. The film also has a memorable ending that puts an original spin on an old plot.

Faithfully Chabrol.......2004-08-20

Stephane Audran has a face that reminds me of Isabelle Huppert. Both women always have a game face on. We can never quite tell what's going on in their pretty little heads, but we know we should be on the look out.

Audran does this to perfection in "The Unfaithful Wife". She also did a great job in Chabrol's previous film "Les Biches".

She has such a sleek beauty to her it's easy to see why a man would fall for her and perhaps even easily to see why a man would go to the lengths her husband Charles does in this movie to keep her by his side.

Audran plays Helen Desvallees, a seemingly happily married woman who has a child, wealth, and a mother-in-law she likes (That's our first sign this is only a movie). What more could she possibily want?

Chabrol presents these people as if they are an average family. On the surface they could be your neighbors, but, the impression I got was there are a lot of secrets between this couple. There is never a scene where they actually have a conversation. It's all small talk. Do they really know each other that well?

We fairly quickly know what's really going on. Helen (Audran) is having an affair with Victor Pegala (Maurice Duchaussoy) and Charles (Michel Bouquet) finds out and trys in his own way to keep his wife.

The movie is never really suspenseful. You're never on the edge of your seat. Chabrol works in much more subtle ways. With whispers not loud bangs.

This film as many may know was remade in 2002 as 'Unfaithful'. It was diirected by Adrian Lyne and starred Richard Gere and Diane Lane. It was admirable but not as polished as this movie is. This movie clears up some of the pot-holes I thought the first one suffered from. I should also mention I saw the remake first. So don't think I bashed it simply because it was a remake. I had nothing to compare it to.

"The Unfaithful Wife" shows Chabrol at the top of his game. It was a time when he was able to churn out hit after hit and much thanks to Stephane Audran.

Bottom-line: Effective Claude Chabrol film. Has a nice setting and strong performances. Audran plays her part extremely well. Lots of choice moments here for film buffs and Chabrol fans.

Chabrol's brilliant attempt at "Madame Bovary".......2003-04-11

'The Unfaithful Wife' is really about a faithful husband, who will kill to save his marriage. This kind of fidelity is a chilling exercise of power - the film's many point-of-view shots are mostly his - with adultery a rebellion, a bid for freedom that must be crushed. It's not enough that Charles uncovers his wife's lover, he must sit on the bed they make love on, drink the same drink...

Chabrol's most perfect film, where character inertia is expressed in blatant artifice, both in the home and in 'nature'; where a materialist filming of materialists conceals an austere spirituality, embodied in those Fateful policemen. Like his namesake Bovary, Charles sleeps when his exquisitely beautiful wife offers herself to him. He deserves what he gets.

The basis for "Unfaithful" is of passing interest at best.......2003-03-31

Interest in Claude Chabrol's 1969 film "La Femme infidèle" is of course spurred by Adrian Lyne's 2002 remake "Unfaithful," which featured an Oscar nominated performance by Diane Lane. However, from that perspective watching the original is hardly worth the effort. The inevitable result of any comparison is going to be impressed with both the style of Lyne's version and the substantive additions to the new version in terms of the plot. In other words, I would expect few people to favor the original over the remake.

The basic story is, of course, the same: husband Charles Desvallées (Michel Bouquet) becomes suspicious that his wife Hélène (Stéphane Audran) is having an affair. Charles hires a private detective who comes up with the name of Victor Pegala (Maurice Ronet) and then goes off to contront his wife's lover. The key difference between the two versions is that the original French film is much more about the husband and his reaction to the affair rather than about the wife and the affair itself. Actually, "The Faithful Husband" is a more accurate description of the story being told in this version.

I want to make something out of the fact that the character's name is Charles, the name of the cuckolded husband in "Madame Bovary," but that would be pushing. But this Charles is neither blind to his wife's unfaithfulness nor incapable of taking action. Ironically, his wife treats her lover with more coldness than she shows her husband. If it were not for the fact we see her in the bed of another man there would be no obvious reason to suspect her of infidelity. Her motivation is never really explained, but when she turns to her husband in bed at night and he decides just to go to sleep, the obvious implication is that it is Charles who has driven Hélène into the arms of Victor.

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Unfaithful Wife 2 (Sana'y Huwag Akong Maligaw) - Philippine Tagalog DVD

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Unfaithful Wife 2 (Sana'y Huwag Akong Maligaw) - Philippine Tagalog DVD
Starring: Ryan Eigenmann Ian Veneracion
Manufacturer: Viva Video
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On the outside, Jennifer (Patricia Javier) life looks perfect: she's beautiful, she's rich, and she has Jimmy (Ian Veneracion), a wonderful husband. But, in spite of everything, there remains a wound inside her that refuses to heal. One day, Archie (Ryan Eigenmann) arrives, and the serene world of Jennifer and Jimmy comes to a jolt. Archie is Jimmy's friend, but he too is the man who, in the past, had broken Jennifer's heart. With Archie around, Jennifer discovers that her incessant pain is caused by her longing for him...

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