BFI: First Look at New 4K Restoration of Claude Chabrol's La Femme Infidele
Posted August 7, 2026 09:15 AM by Webmaster
The British Film Institute has provided a promotional trailer for the recent 4K restoration of Claude Chabrol's La Femme Infidele a.k.a. The Unfaithful Wife (1969), starring Stéphane Audran, Michel Bouquet, Maurice Ronet, Michel Duchaussoy, and Louise Chevalier.
Description: A leading member of the French New Wave, who came to be regarded as the 'French Hitchcock', for many years Claude Chabrol's classic thrillers have been missing from UK screens. A mid-career masterpiece within Chabrol's remarkable run of bourgeois psychological thrillers, La Femme infidèle traces the fallout following a husband's discovery of his wife's affair and his quiet, unnerving and devastating act of revenge.
Starring Stéphane Audran (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Babette's Feast) and Michel Bouquet (Renoir, The Last Mitterrand), the film has recently been remade as Minotaur by Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev, which won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year.
In 2002, Adrian Lyne also directed Unfaithful, which remains the only American remake of a classic Chabrol film.