La Decade prodigieuse is not the most well-oiled
of Claude Chabrol’s thrillers, and coming after such excellent examples of the genre as
Le
Boucher (1969) et
Que la bête meure (1969)... [More...]
Once again, director Claude Chabrol sets about exploring the not so discrete charm of
the bourgeoisie in another well-honed psychological thriller. Here the central theme
is how the endless pursuit of freedom can rebound... [More...]
Coming towards the end of Claude Chabrol’s second gold run of
films, which ran from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s, Nada stands out as something of an
oddity... [More...]
Whilst not generally regarded as one of Claude Chabrol’s better works, Les innocents aux mains sales is
still definitely worth watching if only because it is one of the
director’s weirder and less predictable... [More...]
One of Claude Chabrol’s most underrated films, Une partie de plaisir is a
surprising departure for a director who is best known for his
Hitchcock-style psychological thrillers... [More...]
For anyone who is familiar with the work of French director Claude Chabrol, Blood Relatives
will come as something of a surprise, as it is quite unlike the films for which he is
best known... [More...]
The true story of Violette Nozière provided director Claude
Chabrol with ample material for him to explore his pet themes of
bourgeois repression and the psychology of a murderer... [More...]
Le Cheval d'orgueil is an
atypical film for Claude Chabrol, the French New Wave director who is
better known for his slick psychological thrillers that have earned him
the epithet "the French Alfred Hitchcock"... [More...]
In this exemplary adaptation of a Georges Simenon novel, director Claude Chabrol creates
possibly his darkest and most introspective work, in which he explores some of his favourite
themes... [More...]
On its release in 1985, Poulet au
vinaigre was hailed by the critics as a return to form for its
director, Claude Chabrol. The man who is now reckoned to be
France’s answer to Alfred Hitchcock had lost his way... [More...]
This is actually rather a good, but not particularly noteworthy, detective movie.
Chabrol re-uses a character of an earlier film, Inspecteur Lavardin from Poulet
au Vinaigre... [More...]
After the comparatively bland Lavardin crime thrillers of the mid-1980s and the wryly
comical Masques, director Claude Chabrol returned in 1987 to the dark psychological thriller
genre with which he is probably most closely... [More...]
This film asks a pertinent question: what lies beneath the mask of an apparently pleasant
and sugar-sweet public figure? Can such a person be utterly wicked... [More...]
This is another fine film from one of France’s most popular and prolific directors, Claude
Chabrol. It is a film that has the mood and feel of the deceptively simple thrillers
for which Chabrol is better known... [More...]
