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- Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) Despite playing a central role in the nouvelle vague, Chabrol did not make a truly great film until the movement was drawing to a close.
- Le Boucher (1970) In the run of films Chabrol made between 1968 and 1978 – often referred to as his golden era – the director repurposed the thriller to explore the baser instincts bubbling beneath the manicured surface of the bourgeoisie.
- La Rupture (1970) The two darkest films of Chabrol’s golden era both deal with parental responses to attacks on children. Que la bête meure (1969), in which a father seeks to murder the hit-and-run driver who killed his son, pursues its quarry with clear-eyed moral purpose, but La Rupture, following a woman who leaves her husband after he attacks their son, has a bleaker edge that places it in the same tonal register as Roman Polanski’s great psychological horror pictures.
- Alice ou la Dernière Fugue (1977) From ropey spy films to Orson Welles vehicles, Chabrol’s career is full of outliers, but the best, and indeed the most revealing, is his loose Alice in Wonderland adaptation Alice ou la Dernière Fugue.
Feb 3, 2013 · In its time, Claude Chabrol's slow-building psychological thriller, Les Biches, was considered taboo. Barbarella had come out a year prior, giving some context for (objectified) female...
May 6, 2005 · The fact that Philippe is erotically and emotionally attached to a female Greek statue which bears an uncanny resemblance to Senta, suggests that Chabrol's perverse humour is still very much...
Nov 21, 2023 · No wonder many of Chabrol’s best films are clearly a part of, even as they take liberties with, the domestic-suspense genre. Les biches (1968) is a gender-flipped version of Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr. Ripley, exploring female power and seduction.
Les bonnes femmes gestures towards Chabrol’s later – equally brilliant and pessimistic – films, such as Le boucher (1970), in which appearances are not always what they seem, and the drive for happiness and security is also depicted as a perilous quest in a cruel patriarchal world.
Sep 22, 2011 · By the time of his death in 2010 at the age of 80, the filmmaker had made over 50 feature-length films, many of them suspense dramas often centered around the lives and fates of women.
Mar 11, 2024 · In the film “La Femme Infedele”, which displays all of the abovementioned characteristics, Chabrol plays with Hitchcockian elements like a boy with his toy soldiers. The film abounds with ...
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