Claude Chabrol
Born	24 June 1930 (1930-06-24) (age 79) Paris, France
Occupation	director, actor, producer, screenwriter
Years active	1956 - present

Claude Chabrol (French pronunciation: [klod ʃaˈbʁɔl]; born 24 June 1930, Paris) is 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 Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinema before beginning his career as a film maker.

Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol has remained prolific and popular throughout his now half-century career.^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Filmography 3 Actor 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Biography

After spending World War II in the village of Sardent, where he and a friend constructed a makeshift movie theater,^[1] Chabrol returned to Paris to study pharmacology^[2] at the University of Paris. There Chabrol became involved with the postwar cine club culture and met Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, Jacques Rivette and others with whom he would write for Cahiers du Cinema throughout the 1950s.

In 1957, Chabrol co-wrote Hitchcock (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957)--a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film The Wrong Man (1957)--with Éric Rohmer. The next year, Chabrol made his feature directorial debut with Le Beau Serge (1958), a Hitchcock-influenced ^[2] thriller starring Jean-Claude Brialy partly funded by his wife's inheritance^[1] and among the first films of the French New Wave. A critical success, it won Chabrol the Prix Jean Vigo and was followed the next year by Les Cousins, one of the New Wave's first commercial successes, and Chabrol's first color film, À double tour, starring Jean-Paul Belmondo. The most prolific of the major New Wave directors, Chabrol has averaged almost one film a year since 1958.

He divorced Agnès, his first wife, to marry the actress Stéphane Audran, with whom he had a son, actor Thomas Chabrol. His third wife is Aurore Paquiss.

[edit] Filmography

• Le Beau Serge (1958) (Prix Jean Vigo)
• Les Cousins (1959)
• À double tour (1959)
• Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)
• Les Godelureaux (1961)
• Les Sept péchés capitaux (sketch) (1962)
• L'Œil du Malin (1962)
• Ophelia (1963)
• Landru (1963)
• Les plus belles escroqueries du monde (sketch) (1964)
• Le Tigre aime la chair fraiche (1964)
• Paris vu par... (sketch) (1965)
• Marie-Chantal contre docteur Kha (1965)
• Le Tigre se parfume à la dynamite (1965)
• La Ligne de démarcation (1966)
• Le Scandale (1967)
• La Route de Corinthe (1967)
• Les Biches (1968)
• La Femme infidèle (1969)
• Que la bête meure (1969)
• Le Boucher (1970)
• La Rupture (1970)
• Juste avant la nuit (1971)
• La Décade prodigieuse (1971) (based on Ten Days Wonder by Ellery Queen)
• Docteur Popaul (1972)
• Les Noces rouges (1973)
• Nada also known as The Nada Gang (1974)
• Une Partie de plaisir (1975)
• Les Innocents aux mains sales (1975)
• Les Magiciens (1976)
• Folies bourgeoises (1976)
• Alice ou la Dernière Fugue (1977)
• Les Liens de sang (1978)
• Violette Nozière (1978)
• Le Cheval d'orgueil (1980)
• Les Fantômes du chapelier (1982)
• Le Sang des autres (1984)
• Cop au Vin (1985)
• Inspecteur Lavardin (1986)
• Masques (1987)
• Le Cri du hibou (1988, from a novel by Patricia Highsmith)
• Une affaire de femmes (1989)
• Jours tranquilles à Clichy (1990)
• Docteur M (1990)
• Madame Bovary (1991)
• Betty (1992)
• L'Œil de Vichy (1993)
• L'Enfer (1994)
• La Cérémonie (1995)
• Rien ne va plus (1997)
• Au cœur du mensonge (1999)
• Merci pour le chocolat (2000), prix Louis-Delluc
• The Flower of Evil (2002)
• La Demoiselle d'honneur (2004)
• The Comedy of Power (2006)
• A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
• Bellamy (2009)

[edit] Actor

• 1986 : Je hais les acteurs by Gérard Krawczyk
• 1987 : L'Été en pente douce by Gérard Krawczyk
• 1976 : La Bonne Nouvelle by Andre Weinfeld

[edit] References

1. ^ ^{a b c} Great Directors Critical Database: Claude Charbol at Senses of Cinema
2. ^ ^{a b} Allmovie Biography

[edit] External links

• Claude Chabrol at the Internet Movie Database
• Senses of Cinema: Great Directors Critical Database
• Interview with Chabrol on La Cérémonie
• Roger Ebert interviews Chabrol in 1971
• Surfer on the New Wave - Interview with Chabrol from 2001

Persondata
NAME	Chabrol, Claude
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	French film director
DATE OF BIRTH	24 June 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris, France
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH