(""My life was lingering on too long and getting nowhere."") Stark, claustrophobic close-ups of mental disturbance and spiritual malaise-with enough strands of provocative mystery (what has Claire done with her dead cousin's head?) to keep the proceedings from becoming intolerably abstract or clinical. And finally the writer speaks with Claire herself: she talks about the murder's inevitability, following years of homicidal dreams she touches on her peculiar, yet persuasive, motivation (""All I'm saying is that I'm the sort of person who can't bear other people eating and sleeping well"") and finally the murder is seen, in part, as a kind of suicide. Then the writer interviews philandering husband Pierre, a 57-year-old civil servant, who describes his strange marriage and this oddly ""peaceful"" household he offers small details about Claire's low-key, longtime insanity, about her bygone suicide attempt and her grief over a long-ago love affair eventually he admits that he ""wanted all this to happen,"" to free himself of both women's oppressive company. (Pieces of the body were found in various trains and trucks, all of which passed under the Viorne viaduct.) The writer first talks to local cafe owner Robert Lamy, who recalls the evening of Claire's confession-which was triggered by the quiet, teasing inquiries of two undercover policemen. An unnamed writer has come to rural Viorne, where middle-aged Claire Lannes has confessed to killing her fat, deaf-and-dumb cousin Marie-Therese Bouquet, who kept house for Claire and her husband Pierre for some 20 years.
Written in 1967, it is based on a newspaper article which appeared in 'Le Monde' in which a 'fait divers' was recounted about a woman, Amlie Rabilloux, who killed her husband, cut his body into pieces and then dumped the different. From the mid-1960's: a short, intense psychological-crime study-consisting entirely of three interview transcripts, the aftermath of a brutal, seemingly meaningless murder. L’Amante Anglaise tells the story of a gruesome murder which takes place in the neighborhood of Paris.
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