Mademoiselle (1966 film)

Mademoiselle is a French British drama film directed by Tony Richardson. The dark drama won a BAFTA award and nomination and was featured in the 2007 Brooklyn Academy of Music French film retrospective. Jeanne Moreau plays an undetected sociopath, arsonist and poisoner, a respected visiting schoolteacher and scretaire at the Mairie in a small French village.

Out of pure prejudice, an Italian woodcutter Manou, played in Italian by Ettore Manni is the chief suspect. Sexual tension arises between Mademoiselle and Manou during a series of encounters in the forest. Finally, after a night of somewhat perverse intimacy in the fields, she falsely denounces him and the villagers hack him to death.In a final scene, as Mademoiselle is leaving the village for ever, it is made obvious that the woodcutters son and Mademoiselles former pupil knows the secret. ........

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