Tag Archives: Claude Chabrol

love and crime in the countryside (film: Les noces rouges – Claude Chabrol, 1973)

A few years after being one of the French New Wave four aces, Claude Chabrol said goodbye to film experiments and embarked on a very active commercial directorial career. For over 30 years he has produced films at a rate … Continue reading

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the discrete horror of the bourgeoisie (Film: La Fleur du Mal – Claude Chabrol, 2003)

‘La fleur du mal‘ (English title ‘The Flower of Evil‘) made in 2003 by Claude Chabrol opens with a fairly long frame in which the camera takes us from the ground floor to the second floor of a bourgeois villa … Continue reading

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Adieu, Monsieur Chabrol! (Film: Bellamy – Claude Chabrol, 2009)

Bellamy (or Inspector Bellamy) is the final film in the career that spreads over half a century of director Claude Chabrol, a career started within the cinematic revolution of the French Nouvelle Vague at the end of the 50s in which Chabrol … Continue reading

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