Shot in 1968, writer/director Jean-Denis Bonan's A Woman Kills failed to find
distribution for 45 years before it was restored by Luna Park Films. The
thriller now makes its worldwide bluray debut courtesy of Radiance
Films.
A New Wave influenced thriller with a jazzy score, the film stars
Solange Pradel as a police officer investigating a series of
murders of sex workers while embarking on a relationship with the
executioner (Claude Merlin) of a woman wrongly accused of the
crimes.
A Woman Kills is on UK bluray from February 6th and US
bluray from February 7th.
Special features include a commentary by critics Kat Ellinger and Virginie Sélavy with an
introduction by the latter; a new 37-minute documentary on Bonan; five
shorts by Bonan; trailer; and a limited edition booklet featuring new writing on the film by author and
scholar Catherine Wheatley, writer and broadcaster Richard Thomas on the
short films, writing on gender identity tropes in A Woman Kills and the
horror film, an interview with Francis Lecomte, the French distributor who
rescued the film, newly translated archival reviews and film
credits.
Check out the trailer and packshot below.
The official synopsis reads:
A series of prostitute murders disturbs the public with the thought of a serial killer on the loose. Hélène Picard, a prostitute, is sentenced and executed for the murders, but shortly thereafter similar crimes continue. Executioner Louis Guilbeau meanwhile develops a relationship with the investigating officer, Solange, who soon learns Louis may not be who he says he is.
