Au Cœur Du Mensonge (aka The Color Of Lies) (1999)

In a small town in Brittany, a ten year old girl (Wendy Malpeli) is raped and murdered. Despite the lack of any evidence, the town's suspicions fall on her art teacher (Jacques Gamblin), who was the last person to see her alive. Co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol (LE BOUCHER), this is yet another of Chabrol's trademark psychological thrillers/mysteries, once again a bourgeois couple who find themselves drawn by circumstances beyond their control into a dark abyss which threatens to destroy them. One of the best of Chabrol's late suspense films, he keeps us involved by giving us intricate characters whose surface don't always show us what's underneath. They're puzzles even to themselves. Even the seacoast town isn't what it seems. Quaint and charming on the exterior yet hiding its own nasty secrets. With Sandrine Bonnaire, Antoine De Caunes, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi and Bulle Ogier.