Passion of Slow Fire

Belle (Alexandra Stewart), a young American girl staying in Professor Blanchon's villa near Geneva, is found strangled. Suspicions immediately turn to Blanchon (Jean Desailly, Le Doulos), who is not the culprit. As the cross-examining goes on, he realizes that Belle had secretly loved him, and as a result he is forced to reconsider the mediocre life he leads with his wife. Directed by Édouard Molinaro (Back to the Wall, The Road to Shame) from the novel by crime-writing legend Georges Simenon (Maigret).