THE FLOWER OF EVIL
Thursday & Friday, March 11 & 12 -- 7pm & 9:15pm

The latest film from Claude Chabrol.
Claude Chabrol's 50th feature, THE FLOWER OF EVIL, feels like familiar territory for this New Wave master. A cryptic opening scene, in which the camera floats through abandoned rooms of the family's picture-perfect Bordeaux chateau, sets the mood for a black comedy with murderous underpinnings swathed in bittersweet bourgeois bliss. Francois (Benoit Magimel), the handsome young son, returns home from a 3-year stay in Chicago, and quickly rekindles a fiery romance with his cousin, Michele (Melanie Doutey). Meanwhile, his mother Anne (Natalie Baye) is running for public office, and has stirred up more than a bit of controversy. France, 2003, color, in French w Eng subt., 104 mins., rated R.