Au revoir, Claude
September 28, 2010 10:55 AM   Subscribe

"Along with François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol's name is famously associated with the path-breaking criticism of Cahiers du Cinéma and the rise of the French New Wave. But whilst Truffaut and Godard saw themselves as auteur and innovator, to survey Chabrol's long career is to see a craftsman productively immersed in the conventions and compromises of mainstream filmmaking."

One of the fathers of the French New Wave, often compared to Hitchcock, Claude Chabrol passed away last week at the age of 80.

Chabrol's 50th and final film, Bellamy, was released in 2009. (IFC films will release the film in the U.S. in October)

An outstanding article and filmography from Senses of Cinema

A 2001 Guardian Bio

Slow Burn Suspense, The Films of Claude Chabrol
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posted by Joe Beese at 11:49 AM on September 28, 2010


"I'll be truthful. It's to give them substance. I need a degree of critical support for my films to succeed: without that they can fall flat on their faces. So, what do you have to do? You have to help the critics over their notices, right? So I give them a hand. 'Try with Eliot and see if you find me there.' Or 'How do you fancy Racine?' I give them some little things to grasp at. In 'Le Boucher' I stuck Balzac there in the middle, and they threw themselves upon it like poverty upon the world. It's good not to leave them staring at a blank page of paper, not knowing how to begin ..... 'This film is definitely Balzacian,' and there you are; they're off." [Chabrol, asked why he put so literary quotations in many of his films]

Repose en paix.
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posted by .kobayashi. at 8:42 PM on September 28, 2010


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posted by desuetude at 9:43 PM on September 28, 2010


So once Godard dies, can I never hear the words "Auteur theory" ever again?
posted by CarlRossi at 3:03 PM on September 29, 2010


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