Word: chabrolian
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...specifically about complex relationships and interaction of characters. But where Lang's or Hawks's characters will confront their directors' vision of society-gone-wrong head on, Chabrol's retreat a little from it to defensive personal eccentricities. Both Chris (Anthony Perkins) and Paul (Maurice Ronet) are warped in Chabrolian high-style: bored and restless, willful and given to practical jokes. Chris thinks nothing of using his body to promote money from his wife or stealing from her purse, and Paul destroys a television set in a fit of rage after having terrified a dinner party with a toy mechanical...