Claude Chabrol
Audiences rate Claude Chabrol’s films higher than 81% of the 3,467 people with 10 or more films on ThumbScore. See the full ranking
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The ThumbScore for Claude Chabrol (76.0%) is the average audience approval rating across 12 films. Each movie's ThumbScore represents the percentage of real audiences who rated it positively. A higher score means more of Claude's films are well-received by everyday viewers.
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity.
This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme infidèle (1969), and Le Boucher (1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran, who was his wife at the time. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary (1991) and La Cérémonie (1995).
Histoires insolites (1974), 5 episodes Nouvelles de Henry James (1974), 2 episodes – based on stories by Henry James Il était un musicien (1978), 3 episodes Madame le juge (1978), 1 episode "Jeunesse et Spiritualité" Cyprien Katsaris (1979) Official site Fantômas (1980), 2 episodes – Remake of Fantômas Le système du docteur Goudron et du professeur Plume (1981) – based on The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether by Edgar Allan Poe Elective Affinities (1982) – based on Elective Affinities by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe M. le maudit (1982, short) La danse de mort (1982) – based on The Dance of Death by August Strindberg Les dossiers secrets de l'inspecteur Lavardin (1988), 2 episodes Les redoutables (2001), 1 episode Chez Maupassant (2007), 2 episodes – based on stories by Guy de Maupassant Au siècle de Maupassant: Contes et nouvelles du XIXème siècle (2010), 2 episodes
Born 1930-06-24 in Paris, France. Died 2010-09-12.
On ThumbScore, Claude Chabrol appears in 12 films with an average audience score of 76.0%, most frequently in the Drama genre.
