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Category Archives: Thriller
Merci Pour Le Chocolat
‘I have a knack for doing wrong,’ confesses Swiss-Chocolate factory owner Mika Muller (Isabelle Huppert), the praline beauty in Claude Chabrol’s detective-style thriller. Chabrol wanted to make a film about ‘Evil’, chose Huppert as its purveyor, and from the opening … Continue reading
Posted in Claude Chabrol, French Cinema, French Film, Merci Pour le Chocolat, Thriller
Tagged Anna Mouglalis, Auteur, Catholicism, Chabrol's confessions, Childhood repression, Claude Chabrol, Detective genre, Evil personified, Fairytale evil, French Cinema, French Film, French film review, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Merci Pour Le Chocolat, Movies with pianists, Rodolphe Pauly, Swiss chocolate in the movies, Thriller
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Elle L’Adore (She Worships Him)
An obsessive fertile imagination is vital to securing freedom for divorced Parisian beautician, Muriel (Sandrine Kiberlain) in this Claude Chabrol-style thriller. When rock star Vincent Lacroix (Laurent Lafitte) accidentally kills his girlfriend during a lover’s tiff, he approaches Muriel, his … Continue reading
Les Innocents aux Mains Sales (Innocents with Dirty Hands)
the hollow rattle of 70s sexism … Continue reading
Posted in 1970s, Auteur, Claude Chabrol, French Cinema, French Film, Misogyny, Murder-mystery, Sexuality, St. Tropez, Thriller
Tagged Claude Chabrol, Paolo Giusti, Rod Steiger, Romy Schneider, St. Tropez
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