Film Review: Violette Noziere (1978)
Claude Chabrol’s 1978 film Violette Noziere takes its title from the name of one of France’s most notorious murderers, a young lady who poisoned her father and attempted, but failed to also murder her mother. Violette Noziere then needs no introduction, at least to a French audience. Set in 1930s Paris, this is a less than opulent presentation of the city of light. Chabrol’s city is one of backstreet tenements where working class folk aspire to better things, attempting above