Violette Nozière - 1978 - 7/10
Teenage girl, chafing against her parents’ petty restrictions, begins prostitution.
Soon acquires a needy boyfriend, whom she supports financially.
Parents are clueless, until she contracts the disease.
Slow burn thriller / morality tale simmers steadily.
Isabelle Huppert seems too old to play a teenager, yet Chabrol’s direction uses her wisely.
Based on an explosive 1933 true history, the resolution of which may not please many.