Claude Chabrol seemed to be an icon to the French. His films weaved simple stories with such grace and complexity in the core, that you could not turn away. A director who worked in the realm of realism and also incorporated a psychology and suspense that was rarely seen. He drew inspiration from events that shaped him as a young man, and it showed in films.
Claude Chabrol is without a doubt one of the most prolific auteurs to come from the French New Wave and has been often referred to as "the French Hitchcock" due to his tendency towards thrillers exposing mankind's innate duality. There is usually a dark side lurking just beneath the surface of even his most likable characters.
However, this label ignores some fundamental differences between Chabrol and Hitchcock. The most obvious (and perhaps the most important) of the differences lies in their approach to similar material.
Hitchcock's thrillers focus on placing the audiences in the mindset of his various characters, and a subjective presentation always ruled the day. Chabrol, on the other hand, seems to have preferred a more objective approach to his material.
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