LES NOCES ROUGES (1973)

Cast

Plot

Originally banned in France because of its poltical sensitivity; it coincided with the French elections and was about a real murder case. Its Gaullist villain, the mayor, is a man with a sly plan for purchasing property and developing it as factory-workers' high-rise dwellings plus plastics factory which, while benefiting the town, will end up pouring a small fortune into his own pocket. Pierre, the vice-mayor, is having an affair with the mayor's wife, when his own wife mysteriously dies. The mayor blackmails him into helping with his shady land deal, but then uncovers the affair. The lovers start to think the unthinkable and plot a 'blood wedding'.