Product Details

• Actors: Stéphane Audran, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Michel Bouquet, Annie Cordy, Jean-Claude Drouot
• Directors: Claude Chabrol
• Writers: Claude Chabrol, Charlotte Armstrong
• Format: Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Pathfinder Home Ent.
• DVD Release Date: May 20, 2003
• Run Time: 124 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00007G1XZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #88,856 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "La Rupture" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

LA RUPTURE (THE BREACH) - DVD Movie

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hmmm... That summary leaves a bit to be desired..., February 24, 2000

By 

"russellvlad" - See all my reviews

This review is from: La Rupture [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Excellent Chabrol film --- probably the best introduction to the director. I'm suprised and very happy that this is out on video at a sell-through price. For some inexplicable reason, no one seems to talk much about this film. It's extremely absorbing and quite beautiful to look at though. Stephane Audran is particularly charming in this movie, although some have thought her to be a bit sophisticated for the part. A silly criticism, I think. The colors in this movie are absolutely amazing --- everything somehow dayglo and hyperrealistic at the same time. I think Philip K. Dick fans would in particular get a kick out of this film. It's organized similarly to his novels... Everything just gets more and more disjointed until reality has almost completely broken down. The denouement is pretty darned funny, too. A film that more folks should see, it'll add to your appreciation of Chabrol's other films too.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars La Rupture, July 4, 2007

By 

John Farr - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: La Rupture (DVD)

One of Chabrol's most jarring suspense films opens with a shocking scene of domestic violence before settling into a quiet, disturbing tale of moral corruption and wicked duplicity. Audran tweaks our sympathies as the vulnerable young mother who rents a boarding room across from the hospital where her son recuperates, only to find herself isolated and scorned by the elderly female tenants, then manipulated by Cassel's twisted schemes (which involve LSD, porn, and a dim-witted innocent). If this film didn't end on a psychedelic grace note, you could almost call it an experiment in psychological sadism. "Rupture" is a Hitchcockian marvel.

4.0 out of 5 stars Trippy, Twisted, Funny Take on Domestic Drama, January 29, 2012

By 

Stephen C. Bird (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: La Rupture (DVD)

It's curious to me that only 5 other people have reviewed this film on Amazon. Although the first time I saw this picture I wasn't crazy about it. Now having seen "La Rupture" for the second time--I liked it so much that I am sure it will become one of my favorites of this director. No time is wasted here getting to the action--the opening scene, in which the young son of Charles and Hélène Régnier is seriously injured, is disturbing. That being said--this is not a horror film; there is an aspect of Chabrol's pictures that is always light and at least vaguely humourous. As nefarious as certain moments in this picture can be, Chabrol's films are consistently laced with mischievous black humour; the characters, good or bad, are imbued with humanity. Case in point: (1) the 3 wise-cracking old ladies who play "Tarot" cards, in the boarding house where Hélène ends up staying after injuring & escaping from her husband, provide comic relief; conversely, those 3 old crones come to the defense of Hélène at a key point in the picture, becoming oddly feminist in the process; (2) Paul Thomas' (Jean-Pierre Cassel) sexy, scheming, giggling girlfriend.

Stéphane Audran is outstanding as Hélène Régnier, an ex-stripper / now barmaid who is brutalized by her mentally-ill and / or drug-addicted husband Charles Régnier (the strangely androgynous Jean-Claude Drouot); she is both vulnerable and tough. After Charles moves back in with his parents, Charles' father, the wealthy and unscrupulous Ludovic Régnier (Michel Bouquet), then hires Paul Thomas, a good-for-nothing spy, to dig up dirt on Hélène, so that Charles can gain custody of his son. In the meantime, Hélène moves into a boarding house across from the hospital where her son is recuperating and encounters a kooky bunch of eccentrics (IE the 3 wise-cracking old ladies mentioned above). The plot of the film takes a detour near the end; as another Amazon reviewer noted, the close of this picture is "psychedelic" as it becomes goofy, even nonsensical (Hélène, her orange juice having been spiked by Paul, ends up sitting in the park tripping on acid with the 3 old ladies while a man selling colorful balloons hovers nearby). And the ending, which again involves violence, is over-the-top to the point of being campy. So ultimately the serio-comic elements of this picture could be troublesome for viewers who are looking for so-called credibility in this work.

Stephen C. Bird, author of "Hideous Exuberance: A Satire"