Le Chat ([lə ʃa], "The Cat") is a 1971 French-language drama film directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre and based on Georges Simenon's 1967 novel The Cat.

[2] It recounts the story of an elderly married couple, Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, who have been loathing each other for years.

Their only form of communication being occasional notes on scraps of paper.

The storyline of The Cat is speculated to have originated from Georges Simenon's difficult relationship with his mother.

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