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Le Chat (1970)
Director: Pascal Jardin, Pierre Granier-Deferre
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From Time Out Film Guide
In this anaemic adaptation of a characteristically sour and sweaty Simenon novel, a long-married couple is sucked into a triangular sado-masochistic relationship with a cat, on which the husband lavishes the suffocatingly possessive affection he once devoted to his once-beautiful, now alcoholically bloated, spouse. Simenon, however, invested her eventual killing of the pet with all the neurotic squalor of a crime passionnel; here, given the mutual malignity of Gabin and Signoret, one simply wonders how the cat managed to survive so long.Author: GAd
Cast & crew
Director: Pascal Jardin, Pierre Granier-Deferre
Cast: Simone Signoret, Jean Gabin, Annie Cordy, Jacques Rispal, Nicole Desailly full cast
Genre(s): Horror
Duration: 88 mins
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