L’Enfer is not an easy watch. It is claustrophobic, frustrating, and profoundly sad. But it is also a masterpiece. It asks a question that has no comfortable answer: Is jealousy proof of love, or proof of madness?
The film ends with Paul in a psychiatric hospital. He has completely retreated from reality. He sits in a chair, smiling and talking to an imaginary Nelly, living in a fantasy world where they are still happily married. He has killed his wife, but in his mind, he has "saved" their love. Claude Chabrol - L--enfer -1994-
Claude Chabrol's (1994), often released as in the U.S., is a psychological thriller that serves as a clinical study of pathological jealousy. A central figure of the French New Wave, Chabrol—frequently dubbed the "French Hitchcock"—uses the film to dismantle bourgeois stability through a man's descent into paranoid madness. Roger Ebert Production Origins: The "Cursed" Script L’Enfer is not an easy watch