Claude Chabrol

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries JeanLuc Godard, Franois Truffaut, ric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinma before beginning his career as a film maker.

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was born onJune 1930 to Yves Chabrol and Madeleine Delarbre in Sardent, France, a village in the region of Creuse 400 km south of Paris. Chabrol said that he always thought of himself as a country person, and never as a Parisian. Both Chabrols father and grandfather had been pharmacists, and Chabrol was expected to follow in the family business. But as a child, Chabrol was seized by the demon of cinema and ran a film club in a barn in Sardent between the ages ofand 14. At this time, he developed his passion for the thriller genre, detective stories and other forms of popular fiction. After World War II, Chabrol moved to Paris to study pharmacology and literature at the Sorbonne, where he received a licenci en lettres. Some biographies also state that he briefly studied law and political science at the cole Libre des Sciences Politiques.

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