Chicken in vinegar

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Movie
German title Chicken in vinegar
Original title Chicken au vinaigre
Country of production France
original language French
Publishing year 1985
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Claude Chabrol
script Dominique Roulet (novel)
Claude Chabrol
production Marin Karmitz
music Matthieu Chabrol
camera Jean Rabier
cut Monique Fardoulis
occupation

Chicken in vinegar is a feature film by French director Claude Chabrol from the year 1985 . The crime film with Jean Poiret was the beginning of a series of Inspektor Lavardin film adaptations, which continued in 1986 with Inspektor Lavardin or The Justice . The film was produced by MK2 .

action

The disabled widow Cuno and her son Louis, the local postman, live in a provincial town. Notary Lavoisier, the butcher Filiol and the doctor Morasseau want to evict them from their property with unclean means in order to sell it at a profit. Louis and his mother get their opponents' letters and find out about their plans at an early stage. Delphine Morasseau, the doctor's wife, on whose financial support the trio relies, refuses to work together. Louis starts to fight back and pours sugar into the tank of Filiol's car. The resulting engine damage causes a traffic accident during an overtaking maneuver in which Filiol dies.

After his death, the Paris criminal inspector Lavardin takes over the investigation. He quickly overlooks the corruption in the city, where more crimes are taking place. The lady Anna Foscarie disappears without a trace. At the same time, her friend Delphine Morasseau burns in her car. Lavardin finds out more about the real estate business with brutal means. In the course of his investigations it also turns out that the body in the car is Anna Foscarie's. Delphine Morasseau was actually killed by her husband and immured under a statue in the park of the shared house.

Meanwhile, Louis becomes intimate with his colleague Henriette for the first time. She cures Louis of his pubescent shyness, whereupon he confesses to her his actions. The widow Cuno then sets fire to the common house. Although he knows about the tank attack on the butcher, Inspector Lavardin lets Louis go, who finds Henriette.

Reviews

“A bitter and macabre crime comedy that combines the unmasking of the decadent provincial bourgeoisie with a romance and the psychogram of a conflicting police officer. Chabrol made a sequel called Inspector Lavardin, or Justice ; later a television series was created around the person of the detective. "

- Lexicon of international film

"Claude Chabrol shot this macabre crime comedy [...] with the Chabrol-typical attacks against the (spit) bourgeoisie."

- prism

Andreas Kilb ( Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ) criticized the film. What Chabrol is serving "is far more of the kind of home-style cooking that French directors are currently excellent at preparing." The affection between Louis and Henriette makes the small-town thriller " totally a mess" . Chicken in vinegar looks like a “bad cast” from Chabrol's Der Schlachter (1970) or Die Fantome des Hutmachers (1982). The director rested on his own legend, which, according to Kilb, is the safest way to destroy it.

The Tagesschau described the film in its February 4th broadcast as an "overall successful crime comedy" .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Company credits in the Internet Movie Database (accessed September 15, 2010)
  2. ↑ Chicken in vinegar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ prisma-online.de
  4. ↑ Andreas Kilb : Lost in the egg yolk when stirred . In: FAZ , October 11, 1985, p. 26
  5. ↑ cf. Awards in the Internet Movie Database (accessed September 15, 2010)
  6. ^ Entry "Chicken in vinegar" in the database of the Wiesbaden film evaluation agency; accessed on January 29, 2019