French director, actor, screenwriter Claude Chabrol was born in Paris on June 24, 1930.
Life in cinema began with literature, not directing. Claude Chabrol from the mid-50s worked in the famous French magazine Cahiers du Cinema side by side with other equally well-known screenwriters, and in his spare time read detective stories. It was his work at Cahiers du Cinema that inspired the future director to shoot detective films, and in general various films. And already the first film of Claude Chabrol
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French director, actor, screenwriter Claude Chabrol was born in Paris on June 24, 1930.
Life in cinema began with literature, not directing. Claude Chabrol from the mid-50s worked in the famous French magazine Cahiers du Cinema side by side with other equally well-known screenwriters, and in his spare time read detective stories. It was his work at Cahiers du Cinema that inspired the future director to shoot detective films, and in general various films.
And already the first film of Claude Chabrol in 1958 “Beautiful Serge” gave impetus to a new film movement. The budget of the film was small, it was filmed on the personal funds of the director, received by inheritance, but caused a storm of emotions among critics and viewers, as it ridiculed and condemned the bourgeois reality of French society. Chabrol's next film, Cousins (1959), was staged in the same manner. In general, the director chose the format of his work: a sharp criticism of bourgeois society from the position of provincial misanthropes.
The period of work of director Claude Chabrol from the mid-60s to the early 70s was especially fruitful. It was at this time that legendary films for world cinema appeared. This and
"Unfaithful wife" Let the Beast Die and The Butcher, released in 1969. Here, the director showed himself a lover of the “black detective”, again focusing on the analysis of social relations in French society. In 1970, the film “Rupture” was released, in 1973 – “Bloody Wedding”. Critics called these paintings a “new comedy” in the spirit of Honore de Balzac.
Since 1975, there have been changes in the work of Chabrol. He also filmed his "black detectives," but had already "diluted" them with lawsuits. So, we can note a number of films in this direction:
Inspector Lawarden "The Scream of the Owl", "Violetta Nozier", "Alien Blood", "Silent Days in Clichy", "Madame Bovary".
In 1997, the director celebrated the “anniversary”: the picture “There are no more betting” in 1997 became the fiftieth in his career.
Director's latest film
"Bellamy" It was released in 2009.
On September 12, 2010, at the age of 80, Claude Chabrol died in Paris.