LE TRIO INFERNAL
Directed by FRANCIS GIROD Screenplay by FRANCIS GIROD and JACQUES ROUFFIO
This is a nasty bit of French baggage about a pair of sisters (Romy Schneider and Mascha Gomska) who fall in with the insurance-fraud schemes of a provincial lawyer (Michel Piccoli) and end up in his bed. Director Girod handles the sexual passages with a cool discretion that contrasts oddly with the hot pornographic spirit he brings to the trio's murderous doings. The film's gruesome centerpiece is a bloodbath double murder, followed by an acid bath of several days' duration to dispose of the corpses. A few critics have...