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The Third Lover (French: L'Œil du malin), also titled The Eye of Evil, is a 1962 French–Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells the story of a French journalist in Southern Germany who befriends a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the couple's lives.
The Third Lover: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Jacques Charrier, Stéphane Audran, Walther Reyer, Erika Tweer. André Mercier, a journalist known as Albin Mercier, is a failed, embittered writer. Sent to cover an event in Germany, he gets to know Andreas Hartmann, another writer who, for his part, has not... failed.
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- Drama
- Claude Chabrol
- 1963-06-24
The successful Andreas is married to Hélène, a beautiful Frenchwoman. Both attracted to her and jealous of the couple’s happiness, Mercier decides to shatter it. Taking advantage of the absence of Andreas, off on a business trip, he tries to seduce Hélène and to become her lover. But things do not go according to plan…
Writer Albin Mercier (Jacques Charrier) arrives in a small German town and becomes quickly fascinated by his wealthy neighbors, Andreas (Walther Reyer) and Hélène Hartman (Stéphane Audran), and their happy home surrounded by stone walls and gates.
An in-depth review of the film L'Oeil du malin (1962), aka The Third Lover, directed by Claude Chabrol, featuring Jacques Charrier, Stephane Audran, Walter Reyer.
- Claude Chabrol
Overview. The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple's lives. Claude Chabrol. Director, Writer. Paul Gégauff. Writer. Martial Matthieu. Writer.
17 mars 2020 · For fans of Chabrol and 60s French genre cinema, The Third Lover is an enjoyable, sometimes devious minded exercise but ultimately proves to be a stepping stone for the director’s later masterworks. But the film features a delectable tagline: “Three’s a crowd—until she whispered, Three’s Allowed!”
