This movie was decent until half way through and than the script went south with the hairbrained plot to set up the woman by drugging the mentally impaired daughter of the boarding house.
There was no plausible way that this idiotic plan would fool anyone other than the daughter. And why didn't the starving actor just provide the alibi that he was with Helene at the hospital during the time that the daughter was gone? It's like these writers either had a brain fart, or they think that the viewing audience is too stupid to keep up with what is going on.
Also the drunken father would have told that Helene wasn't the one he left watching over the daughter. There is no film projector in Helene's room, so how would she have shown the girl these X-rated movies.
Plus one of the old women was on to the fact that Paul was not sick at all, and add the doctor who told Helene that Paul was not a patient at the hospital. But some of these reviewers must have watched a different movie, or they paid little attention to the obvious.
Not just that, but after Helene found out about Paul Thomas and refused his invitation for a ride to the airport. Why would she want to sit next to him for breakfast and how did the LSD that was in the candy dissolve quickly enough not to be seen in the orange juice?
Add twice when the three old ladies could have called the police on Paul, but they did at least accompany Helene to the park to keep an eye on her.
So where Chabrol got the reputation of being a good director is beyond me, because he had a decent plot and blew it with childish stupidity.
There was no plausible way that this idiotic plan would fool anyone other than the daughter. And why didn't the starving actor just provide the alibi that he was with Helene at the hospital during the time that the daughter was gone? It's like these writers either had a brain fart, or they think that the viewing audience is too stupid to keep up with what is going on.
Also the drunken father would have told that Helene wasn't the one he left watching over the daughter. There is no film projector in Helene's room, so how would she have shown the girl these X-rated movies.
Plus one of the old women was on to the fact that Paul was not sick at all, and add the doctor who told Helene that Paul was not a patient at the hospital. But some of these reviewers must have watched a different movie, or they paid little attention to the obvious.
Not just that, but after Helene found out about Paul Thomas and refused his invitation for a ride to the airport. Why would she want to sit next to him for breakfast and how did the LSD that was in the candy dissolve quickly enough not to be seen in the orange juice?
Add twice when the three old ladies could have called the police on Paul, but they did at least accompany Helene to the park to keep an eye on her.
So where Chabrol got the reputation of being a good director is beyond me, because he had a decent plot and blew it with childish stupidity.