The Flower of Evil (original title: La fleur du mal) is a 2003 French psychological thriller film by Claude Chabrol that deals with incest, murder and betrayal.

A drinker and ladies man, Gérard disgusts his son François, who has just returned to the house from Chicago after a number of years living there.

[2] Detroit Free Press said: "The strength of this movie is how it starts as a standard whodunit only to become something else: a cunning Chabrol study of incest and old money peppered with a wicked sense of humor.

"[2] SFGate remarked "Chabrol's examination of intergenerational guilt takes a while to arrive at the station, but the characters and dialogue [...] are sophisticated and properly witty.

"[4] Slant Magazine called it "a disappointment", and added "Chabrol has always been hung-up on bourgeois rituals, hypocrisies, and idiosyncrasies, but every observation here is mundane or simply inconsequential to the film’s larger and severely undervalued dialectic of a so-called 'perpetual present'.