Claude Chabrol

Director

1930-06-24 – 2010-09-12 · Paris, France

Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.

Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme Infidèle (1969) and Le Boucher (1970) — all featuring his then-wife, Stéphane Audran.

Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary (1991) and La Ceremonie (1996).

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• Breathless (1960) — Technical Supervisor, Original Story, Technical Advisor
• Unfaithful (2002) — Original Film Writer
• La Cérémonie (1995) — Writer, Director
• Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2010) — Le Producteur Musique de Gainsbourg
• The Butcher (1970) — Director, Screenplay
• Torment (1994) — Director, Writer
• The Other Side of the Wind (2018) — Claude Chabrol
• This Man Must Die (1969) — Director, Screenplay
• Story of Women (1988) — Director, Writer
• Madame Bovary (1991) — Screenplay, Director
• The Unfaithful Wife (1969) — Director, Screenplay
• Nightcap (2000) — Screenplay, Director
• Animal (1977) — Le metteur en scène
• Cop au Vin (1985) — Director, Writer
• The Cousins (1959) — Screenplay, Producer, Director
• Le Beau Serge (1959) — La Truffe, Screenplay, Director, Producer
• The Swindle (1997) — Director, Writer
• Les Biches (1968) — Filmmaker (uncredited), Screenplay, Director, Dialogue
• A Girl Cut in Two (2007) — Director, Writer
• Comedy of Power (2006) — Screenplay, Director
• Violette Nozière (1978) — Screenplay, Director
• The Flower of Evil (2003) — Screenplay, Director
• The Day of the Crows (2012) — Le docteur (voice)
• Paris Belongs to Us (1961) — A man at the party (uncredited), Co-Producer