Nightcap
2000
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1h 40min
• Crime, Drama, Mystery
When asked by Chabrol if she wanted to play a pervert, Huppert, true to form, enthusiastically said “Yes!” So came about this benignly-titled character study that leaves an acidic aftertaste. Underneath the smooth veneer of chic interiors and bourgeois civility, dark impulses quietly congeal.