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This Man Must Die Claude Chabrol, France, 1969, 35mm; 110m On a quiet country lane, a small boy is struck by a hit-and-run driver and killed. His father (Michel Duchaussoy), a writer of children’s books, becomes a self-taught detective to track down the guilty party. His search brings him into the household of a brutal man (Jean Yanne of Le Boucher) whose departure from the scene would be a blessing to everyone in his orbit-including the sister-in-law (Caroline Cellier) with whom Duchaussoy has begun an affair. Chabrol milks every moral-ethical nuance from this fraught situation, then astonishes us with a final, exultant leap into pure legend. “Chabrol gives us scene after scene of carefully observed confrontations, as the cat and mouse circle each other. Usually they’re scenes at mealtime; no other director has so delightfully combined murder and roast duck.”—Roger Ebert

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