A Cinema of Signs: Claude Chabrol on Alfred Hitchcock

A Cinema of Signs: Claude Chabrol on Alfred Hitchcock

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 24, 2006

Runtime

0h 27m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

70%

Original Title

Kino der Zeichen: Claude Chabrol über Alfred Hitchcock

Director

Robert Fischer

Description

Legendary French film director and Nouvelle Vague co-founder Claude Chabrol takes us back to the mid-fifties, when he and then-fellow film critic François Truffaut met and interviewed Alfred Hitchcock under hilarious circumstances. Chabrol then describes how he went on to write, with Eric Rohmer, the first book on Hitchcock, and even served as a consultant when Hitch came to Paris to direct his film TOPAZ. Several key scenes from Hitchcock movies, with a special emphasis on UNDER CAPRICORN, are discussed and dissected.