"The Blood Of Others" is a strange project for Claude Chabrol to have undertaken: a made-for-TV WWII period piece made by a French director working with a (mismatched) international cast, set in Occupied Paris but shot in English, with several English-speaking actors playing French and Germans. Most of the film is an old-fashioned, disjointed soap opera; only near the end are there a few meager suspense sequences. Jodie Foster is fine, and the film definitely gets a shot in the arm from Sam Neill when he enters the picture in the second half. But it's still one of Chabrol's least interesting films. Overlong, too. ** out of 4.
Review of The Blood of Others
The Blood of Others
(1984 TV Movie)
One of Claude Chabrol's least interesting - and least distinctive - films
26 May 2023