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* CrusadingWidow: Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
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* VengefulWidow: Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
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''The Bride Wore Black'' (''La mariée était en noir'') is a 1968 French thriller film directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut and starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/CharlesDenner, Creator/MichelBouquet and Creator/MichaelLonsdale. It is based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Creator/CornellWoolrich.
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''The Bride Wore Black'' (in French ''La (''La mariée était en noir'') is a 1968 French film directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut and starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/CharlesDenner, Creator/MichelBouquet and Creator/MichaelLonsdale. It is based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Creator/CornellWoolrich.
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* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with another woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal. (Morane is the worst of the bunch. When they receive the telegram about his wife's mother being very ill, Morane says that she's super-old and might as well just die.)
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* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with another woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal. (Morane is the worst of the bunch. When they receive the telegram about his wife's mother being very ill, Morane says that she's super-old and might as well just die.) Delvaux is a criminal.
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Julie Kohler leaves her family. She stalks Bliss, a man who does not know her. She infiltrates a party that Bliss organizes and she kills him (she throws him off the balcony of his flat). Some time later, she gets into the flat of another man.
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A woman named Julie Kohler (Moreau) tries to jump out a window to her death, but is stopped by her mother. She then leaves her family. She stalks Bliss, a man who does not know her. She infiltrates a party that Bliss organizes and she kills him (she throws him off the balcony of his flat). Some time later, she gets into the flat of begins stalking another man.
man. Eventually, her motive is revealed: she is stalking, and murdering, five men who are responsible for the death of her husband on the day of her wedding.
Music/BernardHerrmann composed the score.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and [[spoiler:accidentally killed Julie's husband]] when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and [[spoiler:accidentally accidentally killed Julie's husband]] husband when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
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* {{Irony}}: Situational irony. Morane tried to snatch the gun from Delvaux because he thought playing with the gun was dangerous. It caused the accidental murder of [[spoiler:Julie's husband]].
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Julie's husband was killed.]] First she tries to commit suicide, then she decides to murder the five men [[spoiler:involved in the killing of her husband]].
* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Julie's husband was killed.]] First she tries to commit suicide, then she decides to murder the five men [[spoiler:involved in the killing of her husband]].
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* {{Irony}}: Situational irony. Morane tried to snatch the gun from Delvaux because he thought playing with the gun was dangerous. It caused the accidental murder of [[spoiler:Julie's husband]].
Julie's husband.
* TheLostLenore:[[spoiler:Julie's Julie's husband was killed.]] killed. First she tries to commit suicide, then she decides to murder the five men [[spoiler:involved involved in the killing of her husband]].husband.
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* PlotHole: How did Julie find any of this stuff out? She might have been able to find out who was renting the apartment where the five men were playing cards, but how could she have discovered the identity of the other four, who barely knew each other, and never told her?
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* WidowsWeeds: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Throughout the film, Julie, [[spoiler:whose husband was killed]], only wears black and white clothes. During the funeral of Fergus, who she killed, she wears traditional widow's weeds that conceal her face.
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* WidowsWeeds: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Throughout the film, Julie, [[spoiler:whose whose husband was killed]], killed, only wears black and white clothes. During the funeral of Fergus, who she killed, she wears traditional widow's weeds that conceal her face.
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* DramaticUnmask: Corey, the one who finally remembered who the mystery woman is, whips the WidowsWeeds mask off of Julie at Fergus's funeral. It's not dramatic in the traditional "reveal the bad guy's identity" sense, but it's still pretty dramatic.
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* InLoveWithTheMark: It's implied that Julie is developing feelings for Fergus, the painter. She makes a comment about how she can't delay in what she's going to do. She is obviously emotionally disturbed when he tells her that he loves her. When she's cleaning up after killing him, she can't bring herself to paint over the mural of her that he painted on the wall, even though it's highly incriminating. And then she attends his funeral.
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* ChalkOutline: There's a ChalkOutline where Fergus's body lay, complete with an X to mark where Julie shot him with an arrow.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage]]. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Julie's Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage]].marriage. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder. It's a pretty dark example--it was an accidental shooting, and of the five men she kills, only two were really directly responsible, Delvaux who held the gun and Morane who tried to grab it. The other three men she kills were guilty of nothing more than failing to go to the police.
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* VengefulWidow: [[spoiler:Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage.]] She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: [[spoiler:Julie's husband]] was shot on the day of her marriage.
* WidowedAtTheWedding: [[spoiler:Julie's husband]] was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* VengefulWidow: [[spoiler:Julie's Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage.]] marriage. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
* WidowedAtTheWedding:[[spoiler:Julie's husband]] Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* CutPhoneLines: As Morane is nattering on at the dining table, Julie goes to the kitchen, grabs a great big butcher's knife...and uses it to cut the line to the telephone.
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* EtherealWhiteDress: Julie's life was ruined when [[spoiler:her husband was killed]], so she can be considered as metaphorically dead. When she appears in the building where Bliss lives, she is dressed in white. She wears the same dress when she kills him during the party. She is also dressed in white when she is sitting for Fegus. Throughout the film, she only wears black and white clothes.
* FemmeFatale: Julie seduces four men. She secretly plans to kill them all [[spoiler:to avenge her husband]].
* FemmeFatale: Julie seduces four men. She secretly plans to kill them all [[spoiler:to avenge her husband]].
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* EtherealWhiteDress: Julie's life was ruined when [[spoiler:her her husband was killed]], killed, so she can be considered as metaphorically dead. When she appears in the building where Bliss lives, she is dressed in white. She wears the same dress when she kills him during the party. She is also dressed in white when she is sitting for Fegus. Throughout the film, she only wears black and white clothes.
* FemmeFatale: Julie seduces four men. She secretly plans to kill them all[[spoiler:to to avenge her husband]].husband.
* FemmeFatale: Julie seduces four men. She secretly plans to kill them all
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* AccidentalMurder: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and accidentally killed [[spoiler:Julie's husband]] when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
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* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with another woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal.
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* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with another woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal. (Morane is the worst of the bunch. When they receive the telegram about his wife's mother being very ill, Morane says that she's super-old and might as well just die.)
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Julie's background. Her husband]] was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Julie's Julie's background. Her husband]] husband was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* GetIntoJailFree: Julie attends the funeral of Fergus. She expects to be caught there and she is actually arrested because Corey recognizes her. She wants to go to jail to murder Delvauxn who was arrested earlier.
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* GetIntoJailFree: Julie attends the funeral of Fergus. She expects to be caught there and she is actually arrested because Corey recognizes her. She wants to go to jail to murder Delvauxn Delvaux who was arrested earlier.
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* WidowsWeeds: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Throughout the film, Julie, [[spoiler:whose husdband was killed]], only wears black and white clothes. During the funeral of Fergus, who she killed, she wears traditional widow's weeds that conceal her face.
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* WidowsWeeds: [[ZigzaggingTrope Zig-zagged]]. Throughout the film, Julie, [[spoiler:whose husdband husband was killed]], only wears black and white clothes. During the funeral of Fergus, who she killed, she wears traditional widow's weeds that conceal her face.
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** Bliss and his friend Corey seduce many women. Bliss is going to marry, but this does not stop him from flirting with other women.
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** Bliss and his friend Corey seduce many women. Bliss is going to marry, get married, but this does not stop him from flirting with other women.
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* MeaningfulName: Julie pronouces her last name, ''Kohler'', just as ''colère'', which means "anger" in French.
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* MeaningfulName: Julie pronouces pronounces her last name, ''Kohler'', just as ''colère'', which means "anger" in French.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Zigzagged. In the book, a hitman killed Julie's ReformedCriminal husband prior to the main story and the men Julie kills are innocent of his death, while in the film, they did kill him. On the other hand, in the book, the five men are habitual drunk drivers who enjoy driving on the sidewalk to make pedestrians dive out of their way, which is more reckless than the accidental gun discharge which killed Julie's husband in the film.
* AdaptedOut: The film omits a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist from the book.
* AdaptedOut: The film omits a SympatheticInspectorAntagonist from the book.
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* BaldOfEvil: Delvaux, a career criminal and the man who actually shot Julie's husband, is bald.
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* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Julie's background. She explains that she had known her husband since she was a child and always knew she would marry him.
* EtherealWhiteDress: Julie's life was ruined when [[spoiler:her husband was killed]], so she can be considered as metaphorically dead. When she appears in the building where Bliss lives, she is dressed in white. She wears the same dress when she kills him during the party. She is also dressed in white when she is sitting for Fegus. Throughout the film, she only wears black and white clothes.
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* {{Flashback}}: Julie's motive is explained in two flashbacks that show her wedding day.
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* {{Flashback}}: Julie's motive is explained in two flashbacks that show her wedding day. Another flashback shows her ChildhoodFriendRomance with her future husband.
* GetIntoJailFree: Julie attends the funeral of Fergus. She expects to be caught there and she is actually arrested because Corey recognizes her. She wants to go to jail to murder Delvauxn who was arrested earlier.
* GetIntoJailFree: Julie attends the funeral of Fergus. She expects to be caught there and she is actually arrested because Corey recognizes her. She wants to go to jail to murder Delvauxn who was arrested earlier.
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* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Julie's husband was killed.]] First she tries to commit suicide, then she decides to murder the five men [[spoiler:involved in the killing of her husband]].
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[spoiler:Julie's background. Her husband]] was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* MeaningfulName: Julie pronouces her last name, ''Kohler'', just as ''colère'', which means "anger" in French.
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* AccidentalMurder: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and accidentally killed Julie's husband when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
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* FemmeFatale: Julie seduces four men. She secretly plans to kill them all to avenge her husband.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and accidentally killed Julie's husband when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Julie's husband [[spoiler:was shot on the day of her marriage]]. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Julie's husband [[spoiler:was shot on the day of her marriage]]. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and accidentally [[spoiler:accidentally killed Julie's husband husband]] when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
* {{Irony}}: Situational irony. Morane tried to snatch the gun from Delvaux because he thought playing with the gun was dangerous. It caused the accidental murder of [[spoiler:Julie's husband]].
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge:Julie's [[spoiler:Julie's husband [[spoiler:was was shot on the day of her marriage]]. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
* {{Irony}}: Situational irony. Morane tried to snatch the gun from Delvaux because he thought playing with the gun was dangerous. It caused the accidental murder of [[spoiler:Julie's husband]].
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* VengefulWidow: Julie's husband [[spoiler:was shot on the day of her marriage]]. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
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* VengefulWidow: Julie's [[spoiler:Julie's husband [[spoiler:was was shot on the day of her marriage]]. marriage.]] She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
* WidowedAtTheWedding:Julie's husband [[spoiler:Julie's husband]] was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* AtTheOperaTonight: Julie first meets Coral during a classical music concert: she sends the ticket to him and books a seat next to him.
* BluffTheImpostor: Julie claims that she knows Bliss to get access to his flat. The receptionist of the building where Bliss lives claims that Bliss has red hair, which is false. Julie does not correct this obvious mistake, so the receptionist realizes she is lying.
* BluffTheImpostor: Julie claims that she knows Bliss to get access to his flat. The receptionist of the building where Bliss lives claims that Bliss has red hair, which is false. Julie does not correct this obvious mistake, so the receptionist realizes she is lying.
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''The Bride Wore Black'' (in French ''La mariée était en noir'') is a 1968 French film directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut and starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/CharlesDenner Creator/CharlesDenner, Creator/MichelBouquet and Creator/MichelBouquet.Creator/MichaelLonsdale. It is based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Creator/CornellWoolrich.
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''The Bride Wore Black'' (in French ''La mariée était en noir'') is a 1968 French film directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut and starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/CharlesDenner and Creator/MichelBouquet. It is based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich.
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* {{Confessional}}: In the middle of the movie, Julie goes to church to confess. The priest tries to dissuade her to keep on killing, but he fails.
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* WidowedAtTheWedding: Julie's husband was shot on the day of her marriage.
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* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with anoother woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal.
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* AccidentalMurder: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and accidentally killed Julie's husband when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts withanoother another woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal.
* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with
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* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: Delvaux was playing with a hunting gun and accidentally killed Julie's husband when Morane tried to snatch the gun from him.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Julie's husband [[spoiler:was shot on the day of her marriage]]. She seeks revenge and she kills one by one the five men who were involved in this murder.
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''The Bride Wore Black'' (in French ''La mariée était en noir'') is a 1968 French film directed by Creator/FrancoisTruffaut and starring Creator/JeanneMoreau, Creator/CharlesDenner and Creator/MichelBouquet. It is based on the 1940 novel of the same name by Cornell Woolrich.
Julie Kohler leaves her family. She stalks Bliss, a man who does not know her. She infiltrates a party that Bliss organizes and she kills him (she throws him off the balcony of his flat). Some time later, she gets into the flat of another man.
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* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with anoother woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal.
* TheCasanova:
** Bliss and his friend Corey seduce many women. Bliss is going to marry, but this does not stop him from flirting with other women.
** Fergus also seduces many women (he immediately tries to pick up a girl who comes to his studio to sit). He confesses that he is a ladies' man.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: In Coral's flat, Julie empties her glass of poisoned arak into a vase of flowers.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film is adapted from a 1940 novel of the same by Cornell Woolrich.
* {{Flashback}}: Julie's motive is explained in two flashbacks that show her wedding day.
* SleazyPolitician: Morane stands for election and he offers to give the head teacher a medal in exchange for his support. He also tries to use his political position to get sexual favours from Julie.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Julie puts poison into a bottle of arak she gives to Coral. Coral drinks it and dies.
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Julie Kohler leaves her family. She stalks Bliss, a man who does not know her. She infiltrates a party that Bliss organizes and she kills him (she throws him off the balcony of his flat). Some time later, she gets into the flat of another man.
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!!''The Bride Wore Black'' provides examples of:
* AssholeVictim: {{Downplayed|Trope}}. The victims of Julie are not outright villainous, but most of them are not nice. Bliss flirts with anoother woman the day before his marriage. Morane is a SleazyPolitician and he tries to cheat on his wife. Delvaux is a criminal.
* TheCasanova:
** Bliss and his friend Corey seduce many women. Bliss is going to marry, but this does not stop him from flirting with other women.
** Fergus also seduces many women (he immediately tries to pick up a girl who comes to his studio to sit). He confesses that he is a ladies' man.
* DiscreetDrinkDisposal: In Coral's flat, Julie empties her glass of poisoned arak into a vase of flowers.
* TheFilmOfTheBook: The film is adapted from a 1940 novel of the same by Cornell Woolrich.
* {{Flashback}}: Julie's motive is explained in two flashbacks that show her wedding day.
* SleazyPolitician: Morane stands for election and he offers to give the head teacher a medal in exchange for his support. He also tries to use his political position to get sexual favours from Julie.
* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Julie puts poison into a bottle of arak she gives to Coral. Coral drinks it and dies.
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