Performance

Just Before Nightfall

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Claude Chabrol’s 1971 French crime drama tracks a married executive after he kills his lover and attempts to steady his guilt through confession, testing the fragile contracts of marriage, class, and respectability. Michel Bouquet anchors the story with a controlled, inward performance that keeps judgment at arm’s length. Now screening at L’Alliance New York in a live, free performance context, the film lands as part of the city’s long-running dialogue with French cinema. Chabrol’s cool framing makes complicity feel ordinary, which is its sharpest insight.