The Black Angel

The Black Angel

Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau

Produced by Les Films Alain Sarde, La Sorcière Rouge

199495 min5.4 / 10

A morally murky thriller built on romantic entanglement and deception, where truth becomes increasingly elusive as a lawyer descends into a web of lies.

Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.