Chabrol The Anticonformist

Bringing together televised confessions by the director, numerous film extracts – from The Beast Must Die to Masks via The Butcher and The Ceremony – and insights from admirers and artisans of his cinema (critics Jean-François Rauger and François Guérif, author of Conversations with Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert and François Cluzet… ), this affectionate and profound portrait revisits the career of a passionate lover of the seventh art and of life, a truculent free-thinker and modest genius who, as an entomologist wielding both tender humour and ferocity, tirelessly sketched the baseness of humanity.