The Colour of Lies (Au cœur du mensonge)

When a girl is found murdered in a coastal town, a community begins to devour itself, in this thriller about the social poison that a crime unleashes.

When a young girl is found murdered in a Breton town, suspicion falls on a local painter as the community begins to turn on itself. Fans of Thomas Vinterberg’s The Hunt will recognise much here. However, Chabrol is less interested in identifying the killer than in capturing the poisonous social atmosphere that the crime unleashes: the rumours, the prejudice and the quiet savagery of village life.

Contains scenes of harm towards children and rape.