All Chabrol

All Chabrol? More than a promise, a challenge! It must be said that in more than 50 years of career, the man has not been idle: fifty-seven films of course, but also twenty-four television films, two theater productions, performances as an actor, without forgetting all articles previously written for Cinema Notebooks . And to think that along the way, the guy abandoned projects…
Tout Chabrol , true to its title, presents all of this in a joyful and well-documented book-walk. A methodical work that studies each work, places it in the context of the time, the biographical landmarks and the critical reception – sometimes biting – of each of them.
All Chabrol restores above all the essential: the personality of this extraordinary man. More than 3,500 quotes, from Chabrol but also from those close to him, portray the man of Handsome Serge and of La Cérémonie , lively, brilliant and easily sarcastic. A man endearing and attached to his faithful technicians, his favorite actors and his family with whom he loved working so much.
All Chabrol, a lifetime!

Journalist and radio man, Laurent Bourdon is notably the author of Hitchcock Dictionary (Larousse, 2007) – prefaced by Claude Chabrol! –, The Remakes (Larousse, 2012), Definitely Belmondo (Larousse, 2017) and Gems of film criticism (Dunod, 2018).