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Innocents with Dirty Hands Movie Review

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Actors: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Paolo Giusti, Jean Rochefort, François Perrot
Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Innocents with Dirty Hands
INNOCENTS WITH DIRTY HANDS (Les Innocents aux Mains Sales) is a movie directed by Claude Chabrol in 1975.

Romy Schneider is married to Rod Steiger who's 18 years older than her and has neglected her since his heart attack. Romy makes the acquaintance of a no good writer, Paolo Giusti, and both imagine a way to get rid of Steiger. But everything goes wrong as Giusti suddenly disappears and a still-alive Steiger reappears a few days later. While the police is still investigating Steiger's disappearance, the old man and Romy try to rekindle their former love.

--Daniel Staebler, Resident Scholar


Analysis of Innocents with Dirty Hands
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Plot
Time/era of movie: - 1960's-1970's
Romance/Love/Hugging Yes
Kind of romance: - inconveniently married while playing footsy - spurned lover goes for revenge
Lover is... - much older/younger

Main Character
Identity: - Female
Profession/status: - homemaker/wife
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
Hair color? - blonde
Hair type - (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavey
Body type - (woman) ample bosom & buttocks
Unclothed? - Chest and Buttocks
Events of movie makes character more... - caring
Ethnicity/Nationality - French
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Secondary Main Character
Identity: - Male
Hair color - brunette (Black)
Hair style - (man) short/standard straight
Body type - (man) average build
How much in movie? - 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality - French

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Profession/status: - not employed but independently wealthy
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - 60%
Hair color - brunette (Brown)
Hair type - (man) short/standard wavey
Body type - (man) fat
Ethnicity/Nationality - White (American)
How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - druggie/wino disease

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - France
Water? Yes
Water: - pleasure/love boat
Misc setting - fancy mansion

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel... - all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie? Yes
What kind of sex: - kissing - actual description of sex - seeing breasts - seeing nude female butt
Non-American film? Yes
What language? - French
Subtitles? - Yes
Is this movie based on a - book
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