The Great Alibi

The Great Alibi

★ 5.3IMDb Score
Released:2008-04-30
Duration:93 min
Country:France
Director:Pascal Bonitzer
Actors:Miou-Miou, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi, Anne Consigny
Production:UGC Films, Angoa-Agicoa, CinéCinéma

Overview:

Like every weekend senator Henri Pagès and his wife entertain guests at their beautiful mansion in a peaceful village near Paris. But this time around, things go awry: Pierre Collier, a psychoanalyst and consummate womanizer, is brutally murdered. Claire, his wife, dazed and confused by his corpse, with a smoking gun still in her hand, seems to be the ideal culprit...

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