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Bookmark this pageLes Fantômes du Chapelier (1982)
Director: Claude Chabrol
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From Time Out Film Guide
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.Author: BBa
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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