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Film Description
A collection of eight films from one of the leading lights of the nouvelle vague, Claude Chabrol, also affectionately known as 'The French Hitchcock'. Features Les Biches, La Femme Infidele, Que La Bete Meure, Le Boucher, Juste Avant La Nuit, Les Noces Rouge, Nada and Madame Bovary.
Another highly desirable box from the ever-enterprising Arrow: this collection (including such films as Les Biches, Que la Bete Meure and La Femme Infidele) shows the ... more >
Another highly desirable box from the ever-enterprising Arrow: this collection (including such films as Les Biches, Que la Bete Meure and La Femme Infidele) shows the French director in Hitchcockian territory that was a favourite stamping ground of his: murder, moral ambiguity and quiet desperation all tear apart the surfaces of the comfortable middle-class settings. Of particular note here is Chabrol’s cool and compelling take on Nicholas Blake's The Beast Must Die: the director has the full measure of this classic British crime novel and translates it effortlessly to a Mediterranean setting. While other directors of the French New Wave fell by the wayside, Chabrol consolidated his career longevity by making this kind of crime cinema his special preserve. < less
