Reviews
Thursday, December 1 2011
Village Life Might be Brutal, but the City Is Barbaric: 'Le Beau Serge' and 'Les Cousins'
With director, both leads, a supporting actor, editor, and cinematographer in common, Claude Chabrol’s first two films seem like installments of a karmic cycle.
Wednesday, July 27 2011
A Double Dose of Claude Chabrol: 'Just Before Nightfall' and 'Twist'
Some artists stake out the mean streets as their territory. For Claude Chabrol, it was the mean boulevards, the haunts of the repectable.
Wednesday, August 1 2007
The Comedy of Power
Chabrol is often labeled the French Hitchcock for his fascination with intrigue, the criminal mind, moral compromise, and guilt.
Thursday, July 12 2007
Violette Nozière (1978)
Violette, a classic French thriller that compels right at the ultra-noir first moment.
Thursday, January 5 2006
À Double Tour (1959)
À Double Tour is a visually engrossing if emotionally underwhelming thriller set in one the director's prototypically dysfunctional families.
Blogs
Monday, September 13 2010
Claude Who?
To me, making up some kind of overwrought homily filled with vacant, empty if wholly appropriate praise is a bigger sin than suggesting I am clueless.
