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Les Fantômes du Chapelier (1982)

Director: Claude Chabrol

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The hatter (Serrault) is a mass strangler who allows his secret to be discovered by hangdog Cachoudas (Aznavour), the tubercular Armenian tailor opposite. The ensuing relationship seems unbelievably reckless, even with a mad hatter involved, and manifestly it's the Hitchcocko-Jesuitical theology about shared guilt which animates the picture. If it's all a bit exclusive, it's redeemed by Serrault's baroque performance - shaking with secret mirth, letting slip snippets of the mysterious conversations running on in his head. Though based on a 1956 Simenon novel (The Judge and the Hatter) Chabrol locates his adaptation in an off-kilter time zone - little bit '30s, little bit '50s - that some may find the most intriguing aspect of the movie.

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Cast & crew

Director: Claude Chabrol

Producer: Philippe Grumbach

Cast: Michel Serrault, Charles Aznavour, Monique Chaumette, Isabelle Sadoyan, François Cluzet, Aurore Clément, Mario David full cast

Duration: 120 mins


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