Wedding in Blood

Claude Chabrol

From this year on, Reims Polar asked the Claude Chabrol Prize-winning filmmaker to choose and introduce one of his favorite films directed by Claude Chabrol.

Sébastien Marnier chose Wedding in Blood, shot in 1973.

Lucienne and Pierre are having an affair. Lucienne’s husband, Paul, is the mayor and a French deputy. Pierre is close to him and becomes the vice-mayor. When his wife Clotilde, who has been sick for years, suddenly dies, everyone believes in a suicide. But Pierre confesses otherwise to his lover Lucienne, and Paul discovers their affair…