La Femme Infidèle review – Chabrol’s eerie domestic thriller is a brilliant ballet of repression and fear

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Claude Chabrol’s 1969 film charts a complex marriage in which a husband suspects his wife is cheating on himWriter-director Claude Chabrol’s eerie 1969 masterpiece of frozen emotions and unspoken truths is now rereleased, alongside a Chabrol season at London’s BFI Southbank. This is the suspense thriller remade by Adrian Lyne in 2002 as Unfaithful with Richard Gere and Diane Lane and (partly) remade again this year as Minotaur, a bitter and brilliant theme-variation by the Russian director Andre