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Chabrol began his career in 1956, earning his stripes alongside fellow New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard and Francois Truffaut.
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The dialogue is nice and airy, and Chabrol's camera work is steady as always, but I really didn't care all that much.
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Chabrol's not conning the audience, just selling them an exceedingly simple product.
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Besides, the pleasures of the film, as so often with Chabrol, reside in the mischievous yet tolerant recognition of human frailty, in its infinite range.
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In true New Wave fashion, Chabrol plays with the audience's perceptions of these prototype characters by never fully establishing whether they're lovers, just friends, or father and daughter.
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Along with Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Claude Chabrol and Jacques Rivette, all former film critics, he helped pioneer an informal film movement that turned traditional notions of narrative and style on their head.
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And then there are moments that really make you think: Claude Chabrol explaining why being upset never makes sense, Ennio Morricone analyzing the importance of music, Anthony Hopkins lamenting about the finiteness of life.
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Chabrol co-wrote the screenplay for the heartbreak drama, in which Sagnier character is consistently disappointed in love and let down by the men around her, with his step-daughter, Cecile Maistre, who also served as assistant director on the film.
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Many of the qualities that attracted Sagnier to Chabrol are similar to those that draw her on-screen alter-ego Gabrielle to writer Charles Saint-Denis (Francois Berleand) -- Charles' knowledge of life, literature and his ability to treat her like a little girl, not as an equal.
CNN: Veteran new wave filmmaker seduces French starlet Sagnier