‘Six in Paris’ Cuts the City into New Wave Slices of Sex and Death
Filming with a handheld 16mm color camera, six filmmakers offer a cohesive snapshot of 1966 Paris and their obsessions with sex and death.
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‘La Cérémonie’ Explores Social Class Struggles with Chilling Exactitude
Filmed under a cool glass of calm and enwrapped in an airy atmosphere, La Cérémonie makes judicious use of its setting to starkly contrast its warring classes.
Criminal Subterfuge and Dark Desires in Chabrol’s Minimalist Murder-Mysteries
While murder and crime certainly run deep in Claude Chabrol’s world of subterfuge, the dark desires of human nature that provoke them run immeasurably deeper.
Chabrol Dives into Time-Warping Fantasy with ‘Alice ou la dernière fugue’
Using Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland as the basis for his film, Claude Chabrol essays a woman's metaphysical journey into fear in his fantasy-themed Alice ou la dernière fugue.
The Road to Murder in Love and War: Three Films from Claude Chabrol
The troubled character’s in Claude Chabrol’s The Third Lover, Line of Demarcation, and The Champagne Murders are obsessively doubled and mirrored.
Projecting Delusions: Two French New Wave Masters on the Dangers of Film
French New Wave masters The World’s Most Beautiful Swindlers and Ophélia show that picking up a camera will not solve your issues. It may make matters worse.