Claude Chabrol — Director (61)
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The Champagne Murders (1967)
Le scandale Douban
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丑闻
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Le scandale
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The opportunistic owner (Yvonne Furneaux) of a champagne factory enlists the help of her husband (Anthony Perkins) in convincing her mentally unstable business partner (Maurice Ronet) to sell the rights to his famous last name. Soon a mysterious rash of murders occurs, with Ronet the prime suspect.
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浮夸公子 (1961)
Les Godelureaux Douban
克洛德·夏布洛尔
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让-克洛德·布里亚利
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贝纳德特·拉封
other title:
Les Godelureaux
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Wise Guy
The movies Claude Chabrol made in the first ten years of his career are vastly underrated nowadays with the film under review being, arguably, the most obscure of the lot; admittedly, LES GODELUREAUX – an unwieldy single-word title if ever there was one (literally meaning "the popinjays") – could not have endeared it much to audiences. Consequently, it seems rather hard now to believe that Chabrol's more renowned colleague at the "Cahiers Du Cinema", Jean-Luc Godard, once named it among "The Top Six French Films made since the Liberation"(!) alongside Robert Bresson's PICKPOCKET, Jean Cocteau's LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHEE' and Jean Renoir's LE TESTAMENT DU DOCTEUR CORDELIER (all 1959)!!
Thematically, the film is basically Bresson/Cocteau's masterful LES DAMES DU BOIS DE BOULOGNE (1945) reworked for the "New Wave" set – though the revenge this time around is triggered by a petty incident between strangers, making the whole scheme an even more cynical one. Apart from the director himself, the film also finds some choice performers at somewhere near their best, notably the two leads: Jean-Claude Brialy (genuinely Mephistophelean, he displays a remarkable flair for melodrama throughout) and an entrancing Bernadette Lafont (peerlessly epitomizing earthy sensuality) – though some, like the reviewer of the "Films De France" website, actually felt their characters to be caricatures! Equally imperative to the success of the film is Jean Rabier's glossy black-and-white camera-work, a typically fine score by Pierre Jansen and also a clever use of overlapping sound (actually one of the revolutionary cinematic techniques characteristic of the French "Nouvelle Vague" movement).
The plot – oozing with the hedonistic/nihilistic outlook of Chabrol's regular scribe Paul Gegauff – sees the seemingly bisexual bourgeois fop Brialy sending out coquettish seductress Lafont to attract the attention of a young man (well-played by virtual unknown and future director Charles Belmont) who had spited him at the very start of the film. Subsequently, the newly-minted trio becomes virtually inseparable ensuring an invasion of the latter's domestic life (which embarrasses him no end, since he is still in the custody of a strict and wealthy uncle) – as much as they force him into their own private chaos (which involves not only an omnipresent homosexual valet by Brialy's side but a nerdy soon-to-be-wed cousin whom Lafont has no qualms about seducing in front of her current boyfriend, Belmont)!
Although at one point a ménage-a'-trois between the three leads is implied, some of their shenanigans are fairly harmless – such as disrupting an art exhibition with the dissemination of sneezing powder, or an upper-class soiree' by incorporating into the program both a sultry dance (performed by none other than a dark-haired Stephane Audran!) and an eccentric ditty sung by a pathetic ex-vaudevillian lady. However, the bacchanal in the style of Ancient Rome, togas and all – held at Belmont's house, having charged Lafont with its upkeep while he is away on business (in the same vein, Luis Bunuel's contemporaneous VIRIDIANA [1961], would feature a famously blasphemous parody of Da Vinci's "The Last Supper") – has more severe repercussions; this sequence is cleverly, and amusingly, cross-cut by Chabrol with the most formal of restaurant dinners being consumed by the oblivious Belmont and his uncle!
Eventually, the schemer feels vindicated and confesses to having taken the young man 'for a ride' and that Lafont (whom the boy had genuinely fallen for and was even planning to marry) had been his tormentor's mistress all along. However, in keeping with the film's darkly humorous tone (boasting a couple of bona-fide howlers along the way), the coda shows that, though obviously broken-hearted at first, Belmont has picked himself up by the time we next see him a year later and is consoling himself with a plain-looking girl; in fact, running by chance into Lafont on a pier, it is rather the latter who is unable to mature – being seemingly involved in yet another romantic scam (with a high-ranking Naval officer, no less)…
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M the Damned (1982)
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Claude Chabrol
actor:
Francis Arnaud
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Henri Attal
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other title:
M. le maudit
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M le maudit
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A Claude Chabrol remake of M by Fritz Lang for French television.
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Wedding in Blood (1973)
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other title:
血色婚礼
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Les noces rouges
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Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...
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Nada (1974)
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other title:
纳达
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Sterminate gruppo Zero
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Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
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The Unfaithful Wife (1969)
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other title:
不忠
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La femme infidèle
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This film is that Diane Lane stole the show "infidelity" French Edition, by Chabrol M and his wife alderaan. www. iav5.com provided by the actor is an insurance company executive, wife of a writer to make love with boring. The husband hired detectives to find out the truth, personally visited third, join the conversation after he killed. Later his wife accidentally learned that Valentine was killed by her husband, she did not turn him in, but that the husband of her deep love.
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Club Extinction (1990)
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Claude Chabrol
actor:
Alan Bates
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Jennifer Beals
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other title:
M博士
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Dr. M
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In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
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A Girl Cut in Two (2007)
La fille coupée en deux Douban
other title:
分身乏术
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La fille coupée en deux
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影片《双面娇娃》改编自1906年纽约的一个真实案件,著名建筑师斯坦福·怀特(麦迪逊广场花园的设计者)被谋杀,凶手是一个曾与怀特太太有染的年轻百万富翁。嫉妒与精神失常是这场惨案的起因,也是一个世纪后夏布洛尔拍摄此片的灵感来源,写出一个发生在里昂的“真实的心理故事”,一如既往的揭露上流阶层中隐含的虚伪堕落和犯罪欲望。年轻的女气象预报员加布里耶尔(露德薇·莎内Ludivine Sagnier饰)在摄影棚邂遇比她年长30多岁、已婚但崇尚性自由的名作家查里·圣-德尼(贝朗François Berléand饰)并且爱上了他。她的身体和心灵属于两个不同的男人:一个衰老古怪的著名作家,和一个年轻失常的百万富翁。虽然她嫁给了后者,可随之而来的却是意想不到的犯罪。
夏布洛尔平均每年执导一部影片,无论褒贬,都能成为当季节法国影坛的焦点。去年由于《权力欲望》而颇受好评,今年此片也自然成为了暑假期待的又一部力作。此片的关键人物女孩加布艾尔,由法国新生代女星露德薇·莎内扮演。按照导演的设想,她的戏份最重,既要在两个男人之间周旋,充分展示出“双面”的性格,又要让观众认可她的幼稚和无辜。能得到夏布洛尔的点拨,对于刚刚凭借《八美千娇》和《情歌》走红的莎内来说,无疑是个绝佳的学习机会。 (转自《欧洲时报》)
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Web of Passion (1959)
À double tour Douban
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二重奏
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À double tour
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Leda, the flirt of Monsieur Marcoux is murdered. His wife and the police think, that the murderer was the milk-man, the friend of the maid, but Marcoux' daughter's fiance Lazo, who is aware of the corrupt situation in that family doesn't agree with them. Written by Stephan Eichenberg {[email protected]}
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Alice or the Last Escapade (1977)
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Claude Chabrol
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西尔维娅·克里斯蒂
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夏尔·瓦内尔
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other title:
爱丽丝最后的逃离
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Alice ou la dernière fugue
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One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
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The Tiger Likes Fresh Meat (1964)
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Claude Chabrol
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罗杰·哈宁
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玛丽亚·毛班
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other title:
老虎爱吃鲜肉
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Le tigre aime la chair fraiche
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A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.
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The Break Up (1970)
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other title:
春光破碎
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La rupture
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Helene Regnier's husband Charles, who is mentally ill, injures their son Michel in a rage. Charles moves back in with his wealthy and manipulative parents, who blame Helene for their son's condition and vow to win custody of Michel. While the boy is in hospital, Helene rents a room in a boarding house nearby. The Regniers hire Paul Thomas, a family acquaintance who needs money, to find dirt on Helene before the court hearing on custody. Paul moves into the boarding house and, with the help of his girlfriend Sonia, who rarely wears clothes, plots to ruin Helene's reputation and then her very life.
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Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
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other title:
无辜的凶手
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Les innocents aux mains sales
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Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
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This Man Must Die (1969)
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克洛德·夏布洛尔
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米歇尔·迪绍苏瓦
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卡罗利娜·塞利埃
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other title:
禽兽该死
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Que la bête meure
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When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.