Claude Chabrol - L--enfer -1994- ^hot^ Access

The film’s climax, in which Paul attempts to strangle Nelly but instead breaks down weeping, refuses catharsis. No act of violence resolves the tension because the tension was never about evidence of infidelity. It was about the conviction that infidelity must exist. In this, L’Enfer aligns with existentialist thought: freedom means choosing what to believe, and Paul chooses damnation.

The film’s genius lies in its title. We never see the fiery pit of Dante’s Inferno . Instead, Chabrol argues that Hell is not a place you go after you die. Hell is a room with yellow wallpaper. Hell is the suspicion that the person sleeping next to you is a stranger. Hell is the inability to trust your own eyes. Claude Chabrol - L--enfer -1994-

Without End: Narrative Ambiguity and the Unreliable Protagonist in Chabrol's L'Enfer The film’s climax, in which Paul attempts to