Claude Chabrol

...as Pilar and Mundo's surrogate other daughter. "The Maid's" discomfortingly funny first half flirts with the unease of a Claude Chabrol suspense film, as Raquel resorts to mortifying stratagems to wipe out the competition. Both the film and...

In this article: The Maid, Elsa Lanchester, Migraine, Winnie-the-Pooh, and Neil Simon

...a year since 1958. He divorced Agnes, his first wife, to marry the actress Stephane Audran, with whom he had a son, actor Thomas Chabrol. His third wife is Aurore Paquiss. Le Beau Serge (1958) (Prix Jean Vigo) Les Sept peches...

In this article: New Wave, Eric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette, Alfred Hitchcock, Cahiers du cinema, Paris, Le Beau Serge, Jean-Luc Godard, and Francois Truffaut

...meticulousness as old fashioned, which may have contributed to the director's mental malaise. In 1994, the film was remade by Claude Chabrol in typically chilly fashion, but his cold and slightly hysterical retelling doesn't match up...

In this article: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Serge Reggiani, Persona, L'Enfer, Malaise, The Road, London Film Festival, and Les Diaboliques

...the small town fall victim to an unknown murderer. Film Critics have compared Claude Chabrol to Alfred Hitchcock for many years. The plot of Chabrol's Le Boucher seems simple but many people have pointed out the complexities within the...

In this article: The Butcher, Alfred Hitchcock, Suicide, Jean Yanne, and Vietnam

...to express animality, savagery, and ferocity. Huppert's pickiness in directors (she'd happily choose another go with Claude Chabrol over a script by a hot newbie) is rooted in that very French reverence for the auteur. And Wilson, for...

In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Robert Wilson, Brooklyn, Heiner Muller, Sarah Kane, Dracula, 4.48 Psychosis, Edward Steichen, and I Heart Huckabees

...country. Pierre Jansen uses a wonderful vocal melody from Brahms' Vier Ernste Gesange, Op. 121: I. Denn Es Gehet Dem Menschen. Claude Chabrol is my favorite living director. This is the first film in what many consider Chabrol's richest...

In this article: Ran Blake, Sarah Vaughan, Gunther Schuller, George Russell, Nat King Cole, Mahalia Jackson, Abbey Lincoln, and Billie Holiday

...including Jean-Luc Godard, Andrzej Wajda, Michael Cimino, Bertrand Tavernier, Michael Haneke, Francois Ozon and, of course, Claude Chabrol, with whom she has made eight films. Huppert will receive her lifetime achievement award at the...

In this article: Isabelle Huppert, Mark Teschner, General Hospital, Michael Haneke, Francois Ozon, and Jean-Luc Godard

...International Film Festival's Golden Bear for his directorial debut, "Bitter Reunion," French director and Nouvelle Vague pioneer Claude Chabrol will receive the fest's Berlinale Camera lifetime achievement award. Chabrol will be honored...

In this article: Berlin, Berlin International Film Festival, Wolfgang Petersen, R.W. Fassbinder, Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Das Boot

Infamy isn't what it used to be, even when director Claude Chabrol is the one reviving an old story in "A Girl Cut in Two." Still, it's hard to argue that the once-infamous Evelyn Nesbit scandal couldn't happen today. In June 1906, her...

In this article: A Girl Cut in Two, Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, and Benoit Magimel

...our experience with dread. You can't help wondering: If these people, if this social milieu, is so disgusting to Chabrol, why has he invested so much of his life documenting them? What does that say about him? This movie is a mixed repast:...

In this article: Bourgeoisie, Bordeaux, World War II, Suzanne Flon, Melanie Doutey, and Benoit Magimel