ok and it clear that this isn not a great movie . it have some kind of tabloid energy that connect it to film by a director like fuller . and it commit to a very raw kind of amateurism that and as far a i know and be unique in chabrol oeuvre . the main actor be chabrol main screenwriter ( paul gegauff ) and who also perform ( with chabrol son ) the 4 hand piano music use throughout the film ( well and there be a one pianist schubert impromptu at a key point ) . the couple and kid be a real life couple and kid . and so on . this all lend a special intensity to the film but it also create a lack of nuance . but i find that this energy correspond to a certain experience i have ( via my parent ) of a marriage mark by emotional battering good than more nuanced film do . i wish chabrol would have figure out a way to combine this rawness with his usual suavity in late film . instead we end up with tired style exercise like merci pour le chocolat ( although he really capture swiss ness in that film and i have to admit ) . chabrol have a little trick and which i do not love and of add some surreal element to his film right near the end . in this film and it the veil a symbol of death . my girlfriend say 5 people couldn not pull him off her . she do not know that there this kind of suspension near the end of many chabrols . anyway and i want to point out how woody allen seem to have steal the 2 crab sequence for annie hall ( the lobster sequence ) . in the 1st and the wife have an annoy fear of the crab . in the second and on the same beach and the new wife be masterful with the crab and and this make gegauff miss the 1st wife now endear fear . check it out .