A DOUBLE TOUR

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague), a movement that gained prominence in the late 1950s. He was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma before beginning his career as a filmmaker. Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. His first feature film, Le Beau Serge, is regarded as a seminal work in the New Wave cinema movement. Simple and direct in its account of youthful lives unfolding against a rugged landscape and featuring unknown actors, the film’s mastery of story and image is typical of Chabrol. In 1968, Chabrol began working with film producer André Génovès and started to make more critically acclaimed films that would later be considered his "Golden Era". Most of these films revolved around themes of bourgeois characters and a murder is almost always part of the plot. Chabrol continued directing films and TV series well into the 2000s.