Lies & Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol
The hidden meaness of provincial life is at the heart of Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), as deaths and disappearances intersect around the attempt by a corrupt syndicate of property developers to force a disabled woman and her son from their home. Actor Jean Poiret would prove so compelling as the laconic Detective Inspector Lavardin good cop/bad cop all in one that the sequel would be titled after him. Inspector Lavardin sees the titular detective investigating the murder of a wealthy and respected catholic author, renowned for his outspoken views against indecency, whose body is found naked and dead on the beach. In Madame Bovary, Chabrol directs one of his greatest collaborators, actress Isabelle Huppert, in perhaps the definitive depiction of Flaubert’s classic heroine. Meanwhile Betty, adapted from the novel of the same name by Maigret author Georges Simenon, is a scathing attack on the uppermiddle classes, featuring an extraordinary performance by Marie Trintignant as a woman spiraling into alcoholism, but fighting to redefine herself. Finally, in Torment (L’enfer) Chabrol picks up a project abandoned by Henri Georges Clouzot, in which a husband’s jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes. Francois Cluzet and Emmanuelle Beart give career best performances as the husband and wife tearing each other apart.
With brand new digital restorations, this inaugural Arrow Video collection of Claude Chabrol on Bluray brings together a wealth of passionate contributors and archival extras to shed fresh light on the films and the filmmaker.
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Cop Au Vin
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Inspector Lavardin
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Madame Bovary
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Betty
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Torment
Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre)
The hidden meaness of provincial life is at the heart of Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre), as deaths and disappearances intersect around the attempt by a corrupt syndicate of property developers to force a disabled woman and her son from their home. Actor Jean Poiret would prove so compelling as the laconic Detective Inspector Lavardin good cop/bad cop all in one that the sequel would be titled after him.
Inspector Lavardin
Inspector Lavardin sees the titular detective investigating the murder of a wealthy and respected catholic author, renowned for his outspoken views against indecency, whose body is found naked and dead on the beach.
Madame Bovary
In Madame Bovary, Chabrol directs one of his greatest collaborators, actress Isabelle Huppert, in perhaps the definitive depiction of Flaubert’s classic heroine.
Betty
Betty, adapted from the novel of the same name by Maigret author Georges Simenon, is a scathing attack on the uppermiddle classes, featuring an extraordinary performance by Marie Trintignant as a woman spiraling into alcoholism, but fighting to redefine herself.
Torment (L’enfer)
In Torment (L’enfer) Chabrol picks up a project abandoned by Henri Georges Clouzot, in which a husband’s jealousy and suspicion of his wife drive him to appalling extremes. Francois Cluzet and Emmanuelle Beart give career best performances as the husband and wife tearing each other apart.
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- Brand new commentary by film critic Ben Sachs
- Brand new commentary by film critic Ben Sachs
- Brand new commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger
- Brand new commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger
- Brand new commentary by film critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson
- Fully illustrated 80page collector's booklet of new writing on the films by film critics Martyn Conterio, Kat Ellinger, Philip Kemp, and Sam Wigley plus select archival material
- An Interview with Ian Christie, a brand new interview with film historian Ian Christie about the cinema of Claude Chabrol
- Why Chabrol?, a brand new interview with film critic Sam Wigley about why the films of Claude Chabrol remain essential viewing
- Imagining Emma: Madame Bovary on screen, a brand new visual essay by film historian Pamela Hutchinson
- Betty, from Simenon to Chabrol, a brand new visual essay by French Cinema historian Ginette Vincendeau
- On Henri Georges Clouzot, an archival interview with Claude Chabrol in which he talks about fellow director Henri Georges Clouzot (Les diaboliques), whose original attempt to make L’enfer was abandoned, and how the project came to Chabrol
- Claude Chabrol at the BFI, Chabrol discusses his career in this hour long archival interview conducted onstage at the National Film Theatre in 1994
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
- An Interview with Ros Schwartz, a brand new interview with the English translator of the Georges Simenon novel on which the film is based
- An Interview with Marin Karmitz, an archival interview with Marin Karmitz, Chabrol’s most frequent producer
- Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret & Stephane Audran in conversation, an archival Swiss TV episode in which the director and cast discuss Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre)
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny
- Theatrical Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol
- Image Gallery
- Image Gallery
- Theatrical Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Theatrical Trailer
- Image Gallery
- Image Gallery
- Image Gallery