Violette Nozière
7.4 /10 1 Votes
Music director Pierre Jansen Language French | 7.4/10 IMDb Genre Crime, Drama, History Duration Country FranceCanada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Odile Barski , Herve Bromberger , Frederic Grendel Release date Cannes Film Festival:20 May 1978France:24 May 1978United States:7 October 1978 Screenplay Odile Barski, Herve Bromberger, Frederic Grendel Cast (Violette Nozière), (Germaine Nozière), (Baptiste Nozière), Jean-François Garreaud (Jean Dabin), (Maddy), (Pinguet)Similar movies 12 Angry Men , Badlands , Brokeback Mountain , Eastern Promises , True Grit , Out of Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Violette Nozière is a 1978 French crime film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert and Stéphane Audran. The film, based on a true French murder case in 1933, is about an eighteen-year-old girl named Violette and her encounters with a number of older men. The film had a total of 1,074,507 admissions in France.
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Plot
Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert) is a French teen in the 1930s who secretly works as a prostitute while living with her unsuspecting parents, father Baptiste Nozière (Jean Carmet) and mother Germaine Nozière (Stéphane Audran). Rebelling against her "mean and petty" petit-bourgeois parents, she falls in love with a spendthrift young man, whom she virtually supports with thefts from her parents as well as her prostitution earnings.
Meanwhile, her parents are informed by Violette's doctor that she has syphilis. Violette manages to half-persuade her suspicious mother and indulgent father that she has somehow inherited the disease from them. On this pretext, she tricks them into taking "medicine" that is actually poison, killing her father; her mother, however, survives, and Violette is arrested and charged with murder. She defends herself by alleging that her father had molested her; Chabrol's abrupt use of flashbacks makes it uncertain whether Violette is simply lying or telling a half-truth. She is convicted of murder and sentenced to die by guillotine, but a voiceover at the end tells us that her sentence was commuted by degrees to the point that she ultimately left prison, married, and had five children.
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Awards and nominations
The film was entered into the main competition at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival, where Isabelle Huppert won the award for Best Actress. At the César Awards, Stéphane Audran was awarded Best Supporting Actress. The film was also nominated in three other categories: Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert), Best Music (Pierre Jansen) and Best Production Design (Jacques Brizzio).
