This is perhaps best viewed as a complement to La Femme Infidele inasmuch as both films feature infidelity in the well-heeled set and in both cases infidelity segues into murder with both murderers confiding in their spouses - those same spouses on whom they'd been cheating - whilst waiting to be nailed by the flics. Staphane Audran (then Madame Chabrol) is common to both films playing the adulterous wife in the first and then seeing how it felt to be cheated on in this one. This is often spoken of as a great period - late 60s, early 70s - for Chabrol and he certainly turned out some slick, glossy, psychological thrillers at the time, favouring a pastel, muted colour and steady, reliable actors. This is no exception and all three principals cannot be faulted performance-wise but it's difficult to escape the feeling that the whole thing is a tad over-clinical.
Review of Just Before Nightfall
