Claude Chabrol
French film director (1930–2010)
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A founding member of the French New Wave who then spent fifty years doing the one thing his radical peers mostly avoided: making thrillers, over and over, with a cool distance that turned bourgeois murder into something like a private joke.
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Claude Chabrol started as a critic at Cahiers du Cinéma alongside Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer, and Rivette, then broke into directing with Le Beau Serge in 1958, a Hitchcock-inspired debut that set the template. Thrillers became his signature—distanced, objective studies of violence often set among the comfortable classes—and he returned to them for half a century while his New Wave colleagues scattered into other forms. Les Biches, La Femme infidèle, and Le Boucher in the late sixties all starred Stéphane Audran, his wife at the time. In 1978 he cast Isabelle Huppert in Violette Nozière and the…
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- European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award
- Louis Delluc Prize
- National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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