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:
““Novelties and notions?” What kind of notions you got?”
—Mae West, U.S. screenwriter, W.C. Fields, and Edward Cline. Flower Belle Lee (Mae West)
“No more, O my spirit,
are we flawless,
we have seen evil undreamt
I myself saw it.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)