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Monsieur Verdoux
Comedy, Crime, Drama
The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy elegant black comedy that uses a charmingly composed antihero to expose economic injustice and respectable society’s moral contradictions.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, bleak
- Payoff
- amusement, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- economic survival, marriage, social hypocrisy, moral compromise, mortality
- Setting
- interwar 1930s, economically depressed urban and suburban society
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