Dark Woods
Les bois noirs
Release: 1989-08-23
·Runtime: 98m
Drama
In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette, a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin, a charming aristocrat, and returned with him to live on his country estate. There, she begins to discover that all is not as it seemed, and beneath her groom's charming exterior is an undreamt-of savagery. She forms an alliance with her husband's much saner brother Bastien which saves her in the end, but not before she must go on trial for the murder of her husband.
Production Countries
France
Production Companies
Paradis Films
Mondex Films
La Générale d'Images
France 3 Cinéma
Cast
Béatrice Dalle
as Violette
Philippe Volter
as Gustave
Michel Duchaussoy
as Investigating judge
Hervé Laudière
as Antoine
Jenny Clève
as Anna Bourderias
Pierre Vial
as Dr. Charles
Jacques David
as Le président Boissot
Stéphane Freiss
as Bastien
Geneviève Page
as Nathalie Dupin
Claudine Delvaux
as Rose Charles
Crew
Jacques Deray
Director, Writer
Martine Rapin
Costume Design
Valentine Marvel
First Assistant "B" Camera, Second Assistant Camera
Jean Labadie
Producer
François de Lamothe
Production Design
Pascal Bonitzer
Writer
Romano Musumarra
Original Music Composer
Stéphane Sorlat
Producer
Carlo Varini
Director of Photography
François Groult
Sound