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The Breach (French: La Rupture), also titled The Breakup, is a 1970 French–Italian–Belgian drama film written and directed by Claude Chabrol, based on the novel The Balloon Man by Charlotte Armstrong. It follows a mother's struggle for custody of her son against her husband's parents.
Aug 26, 1970 · Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby.
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- Drama
- Claude Chabrol
- 1970-08-26
“La Rupture” stars Chabrol regular (also, wife) Stéphan Audran as a young woman who takes her child, and escapes from her abusive husband. She doesn’t make clear enough of a break though, as her rich father-in-law frames her for insanity in an effort to take custody of his grandson.
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- Ciné Vog Films
- Claude Chabrol
To put it another way, La rupture straddles two worlds: the real world of ordinary people like Hélène who struggle with life, and the fairy-tale world of her husband’s bourgeois family. When Paul visits the Régnier mansion, he and Charles’ father walk in on Madame Régnier reading to their adult son in bed: “The knight kissed the young ...
Charlotte Armstrong. Novel. An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
Film Synopsis. H élène Régnier walks out on her drug-addicted husband Charles after he brutally attacks their infant son. She stays in a run-down hotel whilst her son convalesces in hospital and she files for divorce.
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La Rupture (The Breach) is a particularly weird one, starring (again) Stephane Audran (Chabrol's then wife) as a young mother whose child is injured by her (depressed...
