Sandrine Bonnaire and Isabelle Huppert star in this brilliant, intense thriller from Chabrol, one of the founding brothers of the French New Wave.
Tag: Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol’s ‘The Color of Lies’ on Sundance Now
Claude Chabrol’s The Color of Lies (1999) arrived forty years after his debut feature, but the old man still had more than a decade filmmaking left in him. Chabrol had always been more interested in character than plot and psychology than suspense and The Color of Lies, which opens on the murder of a child, uses […]
Blu-ray: 3 by Claude Chabrol – Betty / Torment / The Swindle
Betty / Torment / The Swindle: 3 Classic Films by Claude Chabrol (Cohen, Blu-ray) – Claude Chabrol has been called the Gallic Hitchcock because of his fascination with the Master of Suspense (he co-authored the first groundbreaking study of Hitchcock with Eric Rohmer in 1957) and his career-defining work in the suspense genre. But where […]
‘Les Bonnes Femmes’ on Amazon Prime
The “bonnes femmes” of Claude Chabrol’s Les Bonnes Femmes (1960) are four shopgirls at a small appliance store in Paris. Good time girl Bernadette Lafont spends her nights in empty flirtations with boorish womanizers, social climbing Lucile Saint-Simon withers under the disdainful gaze of her boyfriend’s haughty parents, seemingly confident Stephane Audran secretly follows her […]