The Flower of Evil (original title: La fleur du mal) is a 2003 French film by Claude Chabrol.
It tells of an outwardly perfect family in Bordeaux, whose seeming perfection begins to unravel when the wife involves herself in politics. A corpse surfaces just before the local election and the spectre of past family indiscretion resurfaces in mysterious deaths and other scandals.
Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or evil:
“Full many a gem of purest ray serene,
The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.”
—Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
“Men’s evil manners live in brass, their virtues
We write in water.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)