Influential French New Wave director Claude Chabrol died this weekend at age 80. Here are the BBC obit and French reactions published in Le Monde.
While very popular in France, and respected worldwide, Chabrol's films were confined to the art-house circuit in the United States. How foreign movies such as Chabrol's get distributed in the United States is an interesting, important, and largely untold story. One finds out quickly that distribution is very definitely a business: to paraphrase Scripture, many films are made, but few are chosen. This maxim is especially true for those films of foreign genesis and "artistic" reputation.
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