The Color of Lies (1999)

5.8/10 113 min Crime Drama

Overview

In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...

Cast

Sandrine Bonnaire

Vivianne Sterne

Jacques Gamblin

René Sterne

Antoine de Caunes

Germain-Roland Desmot

Valeria Bruni Tedeschi

Frédérique Lesage

Bernard Verley

Inspecteur Loudun

Bulle Ogier

Évelyne Bordier

Pierre Martot

Regis Marchal

Noël Simsolo

Monsieur Bordier

Rodolphe Pauly

Victor

Adrienne Pauly

Anna

Véronique Volta

Betty

Sylvie Flepp

Madame Lemoine

Florent Gibassier

Joël Sarne

Thomas Chabrol

Le Médecin Légiste

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