SYNOPSIS: One of the great

late period films by Sacha Guitry - the total auteur who delighted (and

scandalised) the French public and inspired the French New Wave as a

model for authorship as director - writer - star of screen and stage

alike. In every one of his pictures (and almost every one served as a

rueful examination of the war between the sexes), Guitry sculpted by way

of a rapier wit - one might say by way of \""the Guitry touch\"" - some of

the most sophisticated black comedies ever conceived... and La Poison [Poison] is one of his blackest.

Michel Simon plays Paul Braconnier, a man with designs on murdering his

wife Blandine (Germaine Reuver) - a woman with similar designs on her

husband. When Braconnier visits Paris to consult with a lawyer about the

perfect way of killing a spouse - that is, the way in which he can get

away with it - an acid comedy unfolds that reaches its peak in a

courtroom scene for the ages.

From the moment of Guitr!