Chabrol, Claude
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Chabrol, Claude
French film director. One of the New Wave directors, he came to the fore in the late 1950s. His works centre on murder and suspense, and include Les Cousins/The Cousins (1959), Les Bonnes Femmes/The Good Women (1960), Les Biches/Girlfriends (1968), and Le Boucher/The Butcher (1969).
Chabrol was originally a critic for the French film journal Cahiers du Cinéma. A major influence on his work was the director Alfred Hitchcock, about whom he co-wrote a book with his fellow director Eric Rohmer.
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