Claude Chabrol

Fifty one films from 1957 to 1997 collected and reviewed by acclaimed Greek and international film critics (including the colleagues of Cahiers du Cinéma and Nouvelle Vague, Truffaut, Godard, Rohmer). The publication, edited by Babis Aktsoglou, includes general texts and researches on his work by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Thierry Jousse, Jean-Louis Comolli, Yorgos Bramos, Achilleas Kyriakidis etc. In addition, a section with texts and interviews by Chabrol with the best one to be the interview in 1962 for Cahiers, with the incomparable title “Stupidity has bigger depth than cleverness”. All these paint the portrait of a director who captured in his rich work everything with regards to humanity’s passions and emotions; from the despicable to the divine, and from the tragic to the ridiculous, having always as a guideline the quote from “The Rules of the Game” by Jean Renoir: “The awful thing about life is this: Everybody has their reasons”.