Violette Nozière

Paris, 1933: Violette Noziere (Isabelle Huppert) will turn 18. She lives with her parents, Germaine (Stéphane Audran) and Baptiste (Jean Carmet), in a very modest apartment cluttered with ungainly furniture and objects. Violette can't stand the cramped quarters or the drab atmosphere at home. Baptiste Noziere is only interested in his card games, while Germaine clumsily tries to raise her daughter according to a petit-bourgeois ideal that excludes any hint of dreaming. So Violette escapes in her own way, leading a double life: an emancipated young woman on the outside, elegantly dressed, with easy money, but a butterfly who folds her wings and slips into her drab chrysalis when she returns to her parents' house. Her encounter with Jean Dabin (Jean Francois Garreaud), a mediocre and unscrupulous man with whom she falls madly in love, will further widen the gap between her two lives.