The Burned Barns [Les granges brûlées] *** (1973, Simone Signoret, Alain Delon, Paul Crauchet) – Classic Movie Review 5550

Co-writer/ director Jean Chapot’s 1973 French whodunit thriller puts infidelity, guilty secrets and family discords right to the forefront of its agenda.

The setting is a large, lonely snowbound farm house, and, when a brutal murder of a young woman occurs nearby, suspicion falls on its inhabitants, a family spending the winter there.

Alain Delon plays the investigating judge, Le juge Pierre Larcher, and starts to question the middle-aged married couple Rose and Pierre (Simone Signoret and Paul Crauchet) at the farm.

The top-notch French cast plays the decent and intriguing drama for a little more than it is worth.

Thanks to the star power, it was big hit in France.

Also in the cast are Miou-Miou, Catherine Allégret, Bernard Le Coq, Christine Barbier, Pierre Rousseau, Jean Bouisse, Fernand Ledoux, Renato Salvatori and Béatrice Costantini.

It is also known as The Investigator, Burnt Barns and La Mia Legge.

It is co-written by Sébastien Roulet, shot by Sacha Vierny, produced by Raymond Danon and scored by Jean-Michel Jarre.

Delon and Signoret also starred together in La Veuve Couderc (1971).

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