Tag Archives: Pierre Jansen

the indiscrete wickedness of the bourgeoisie (film: La rupture – Claude Chabrol, 1970)

Posted on August 1, 2025 by admin

Some of the most scathing cinematic critiques of the bourgeoisie and the social order it dominated were created in the years after the student uprisings of 1968. They did not always take the form of explicitly political films, and one … Continue reading →

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Hitchcock in a French village (Film: Le boucher – Claude Chabrol, 1970)

Posted on June 9, 2020 by admin

If Alfred Hitchcock had made a mystery thriller film set in a French village, I think it would have been ‘Le Boucher‘. Hitchcock, as we all know, did not make such a film, but maybe he got to see Claude … Continue reading →

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