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The Third Lover (French: L'Œil du malin), also titled The Eye of Evil, is a 1962 French–Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of a French journalist in Southern Germany who befriends a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the couple's lives.
The Third Lover: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer, Erika Tweer. André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer.
The Third Lover (original title: L'Œil du malin), also known as The Eye of Evil, is a 1962 drama directed by Claude Chabrol. It is one of Chabrol's first films to include social criticism on bourgeoisie lifestyles that would become one of his trademarks in later films.
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Claude Chabrol’s L’oeil du malin (US: The Third Lover) perfectly represents the transition from film noir to the French New Wave. The suspense is psychological, the crime is domesticated, and the motivations are inexplicable, taking on a kind of emotional nihilism.
The Third Lover is an early psychological thriller by Claude Chabrol showing him finding his true subjects: adultery, sexual jealousy, murder. Albin (Jacques Charrier) is an unsuccessful, frustrated novelist forced to report on German life from Munich for a French newspaper.
Jul 31, 2020 · A failing, embittered journalist attempts to sabotage another writer's marriage.
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