Overview
The Flower of Evil (original title: La fleur du mal) is a 2003 French suspense drama film by Claude Chabrol.
It tells of an outwardly perfect family in Bordeaux, whose seeming perfection begins to unravel when the wife involves herself in politics. A corpse surfaces just before the local election and the spectre of past family indiscretion resurfaces in mysterious deaths and other scandals.
Plot
In a grand house at Bordeaux lives Gérard, owner of a pharmaceutical business. A drinker and fornicator, he disgusts his son François, recently returned from the USA. To Gérard's disgust, his second wife Anne is a candidate in the municipal election.
Her daughter by her first marriage, Michèle, is excited by the return of François and the two go off for a weekend at , where they become lovers. Anne's old aunt Line encourages the pair.
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