infidelity and scandal

Chabrol obsessively dissected bourgeois infidelity and moral hypocrisy throughout his career, most notably in *Unfaithful* and *La Cérémonie*, exploring how scandal unravels middle-class facades.

Almodóvar's films theatricalize passion, betrayal, and scandal with darkly comic intensity, examining how infidelity destroys and transforms relationships in works like *Live Flesh* and *Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*.

Pasolini confronted desire, transgression, and social scandal as destructive forces, using infidelity as a lens to critique society's sexual hypocrisy and moral corruption in films like *Teorema*.