Young Dominique is on trial for murdering her ex-boyfriend Gilbert. The devil-may-care young woman was quite literally obsessed with the young musician, and she couldn’t take the fact that he preferred her more conservative sister. The routine court hearing handling the purported crime of passion soon begins to pillory the woman’s loose morals, not to mention the bohemian lifestyle adopted by the young generation on the left bank of the Seine in the early 1960s. In this courtroom drama, which Clouzot cowrote with his wife Véra, the much admired French filmmaker returned to his favorite theme of jealousy and its influence on an individual’s psyche. He placed the attractive Dominique (one of Brigitte Bardot’s strongest roles) at the center of the action and at the mercy of the contemptuous gaze of the middle class. Clouzot astutely deconstructed the myth of the seductive minx with defiantly pouting lips, and demonstrated the actress’s undeniable talent. The Truth, presented in a new print restored by Sony/Columbia studios, was one of the biggest French box office hits of its era, winning a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and an Oscar nomination in the same category.