Chabrol

/ ʃabrɔl /

noun

1. Claude (klod). 1930–2010, French film director, whose films, such as Le Beau Serge (1958), Les Biches (1968), Le Boucher (1969), Au coeur du mensonge (1999), and La Fleur du mal (2003) explore themes of jealousy, guilt, and murder

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The result at times carries the whiff of something simultaneously refreshing and nostalgic: less a vacation project and closer to an imagined hybrid of Dostoevsky, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol, in which an inconvenient romantic spark leads to cold-blooded problem-solving.

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Criterion Channel subscribers may find echoes of Claude Chabrol in Marnier’s ice-water approach — faint, but present.

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A late-blooming career has earned Calamy comparisons to Olivia Colman, which is kind of likening a filmmaker to Chabrol.

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He had settled in Paris in the late 1940s and embraced a bohemian lifestyle that included watching hundreds of films a year at a movie house that drew such like-minded cineastes and future directors as Chabrol, Rohmer and Truffaut.

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Starting with his 1960 debut feature, “Breathless,” Mr. Godard rode the crest of what became known as the New Wave, a group of young film critics — including François Truffaut, Eric Rohmer and Claude Chabrol — who took up directing to liberate what they regarded as a calcified movie industry.

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