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:
“Love is a barren sea, bitter and deep;
And though she saw all heaven in flower above,
She would not love.”
—A.C. (Algernon Charles)
“You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)