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In the Los Angeles Times, Susan King talks a little bit about Alfred Hitchcock’s influence on Claude Chabrol, 76, whose 2004 thriller La Demoiselle d’honneur / The Bridesmaid opened in Los Angeles this past Friday, Sept. 8. (I just wouldn’t have translated "amour fou" as "foolish love." I believe that "mad love" or "unbridled love" would have been more appropriate.)

A brief quote:

"Claude Chabrol has been described as the French Alfred Hitchcock. He even co-wrote, with director Eric Rohmer, a book about the Master of Suspense before he began his own directing career in the late 1950s.

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"Based on the novel by Ruth Rendell, the eerie, atmospheric thriller [La Demoiselle d'honneur] stars Benoît Magimel as a young man who falls in love at first sight with a beautiful but aloof bridesmaid (Laura Smet) at his sister’s wedding. The woman’s life is shrouded in mystery; she keeps making up outlandish stories about her past. When she declares that the only way they can prove their love for each other is by killing a stranger, he must decide how far he is willing to take their relationship."

Also in the cast are Chabrol veteran Michel Duchaussoy and the late stage and film star Suzanne Flon, in one of her last film appearances.

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