Le Puits aux trois vérités (1961)

Le Puits aux trois vérités is a French film first released in 1961, directed by François Villiers.  The film is based on a novel by Jean-Jaques Gauthier and stars Michèle Morgan, Jean-Claude Brialy, Catherine Spaak, Scilla Gabel and Michel Etcheverry.  It has also been released under the title: Three Faces of Sin.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


Midnight in Paris, Faubourg St Honoré.  In one house, a woman suddenly screams and the sound of a gunshot is heard.  A short time later, Laurent Lénaud, a young painter, is running away with a suitcase.  Arriving at a hotel, he enters a room where a young woman named Rossana is crying.  The room is strewn with broken furniture and clothes lie on the floor.  Laurent is almost certain that his wife Danielle is to blame for this.  Meanwhile, in an expensive apartment a woman is responding to the questions put to her by police officer Bertrand.  She is Renée Plèges, the owner of an antiques shop.  That evening, she found her daughter Danielle shot dead.  Renée explains that Laurent, her son-in-law, wanted to leave Danielle.  When she refused to divorce him, he killed her.  While Bertrand asks Renée to tell him everything she remembers since the first day she met Laurent, the latter recounts to his mistress Rossana the events that took place before Danielle’s death.  Two completely different stories emerge.  Then Danielle’s personal diary is found, bringing a third explanation of what took place that evening...
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