: Unlike typical thrillers, the focus is on how social judgment and a wife's cold suspicion can drive an innocent man toward the very depravity he is accused of. It explores the "prophecy" of guilt—the idea that being treated as a murderer eventually makes one capable of the act.
: Feature the elegant and subtle score by Georges Delerue , which underscores the "slow fire" of the protagonist's growing desperation. La mort de Belle(1961)
An interesting feature for the 1961 film (released in the US as The Passion of Slow Fire ) could center on its exploration of the transference of guilt and the psychological disintegration of the "ordinary man". : Unlike typical thrillers, the focus is on