Claude Chabrol

Biography

Claude Chabrol was a French film director and member of the French New Wave movement, emerging in the late 1950s alongside Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer, and Jacques Rivette. His feature debut, Le Beau Serge (1958), was inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, and he became known for his thriller genre, particularly with films featuring his wife Stéphane Audran, such as Les Biches (1968) and La Femme Infidèle (1969). Chabrol remained prolific throughout his half-century career, collaborating with actress Isabelle Huppert in Violette Nozière (1978) and Madame Bovary (1991).