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Chabrol

British  
/ 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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It’s a wonderfully understated method to refresh audience interest in such figures as Claude Chabrol, Robert Bresson and Jean-Pierre Melville.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2023

Godard also launched what was to be a career-long participation in collective film projects, contributing scenes to “The Seven Deadly Sins” along with directors such as Claude Chabrol and Roger Vadim.

From Washington Times ● Sep. 13, 2022

Or Claude Chabrol go after the dynamics and filter them through thrillers?

From Salon ● Sep. 9, 2022

Having fled to Belgium, he remained there but a few days, going thence to Paris, under an assumed name, to conceal himself in a house in the Rue de Chabrol.

From What is Property? by P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph) Proudhon

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