Word: chabrol
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...plaudits aplenty for the co-star and the director of his newest film, now being completed in Saint-Tropez, France. The movie, tentatively entitled Damned Innocents, features Steiger as an aging husband and Romy Schneider as his wandering-eyed wife, and is directed by New Wave Mastermind Claude Chabrol. Says Steiger of Chabrol: "He understands the necessity of allowing his actors artistic freedom. There isn't that much money to be made, and we have to use all the talent there is." Which, presumably, includes Schneider. "Working with her makes me realize how ignorant I am," concedes Steiger...
Directed by CLAUDE CHABROL Screenplay by CLAUDE CHABROL and JEAN-PATRICK MANCHETTE...
...Claude Chabrol defines absurdity as the gap between the awesome finality of death and the trivial reasons men adduce for killing or putting themselves in the way of being killed. To him, murder is the ultimate emotional excess, an enigma he has worried with a tough-minded, ironic and often subtle compassion in such recent films as This Man Must Die and Le Boucher. These movies are about the exorcizing of private demons. Never until The Nada Gang has Chabrol concerned himself with murder in its most absurd manifestation-as an act of public political protest...
...issue? What is more cruel than making an individual, against his will, into a symbol of injustices for which he bears little, if any, personal responsibility and which may even be largely the figments of his assassins' imaginations? The Nada Gang, in short, had the potential for being Chabrol's great summing up. It is instead a botch...
...isolated farm while threatening to kill him if their demands are not met by the government. Eventually he and his captors all die in a police action that looks like a rescue operation but is planned from the start by its leader (Michel Aumont) as a massacre. Throughout, Chabrol scores the kind of points one expects from him. Most of the Nada gang are working out their personal problems through political activity. The same may be said of their official pursuers up to the highest level of the French government, whose ministers and bureaucrats are as blandly indifferent to humane...