A season of film biographies of artists and musicians.
Getting Away with Murder or The Childhood of Claude Chabrol
An Omnibus film about the greatest exponent of crime films since Hitchcock.
'I like to see people kill other people. Murder in films adds a little spice, makes the audience feel they haven't wasted their evening.'
Claude Chabrol , director of films like Blood Wedding, The Butcher, The Beast Must Die, narrates his own - sometimes tongue-in-cheek - autobiography. Scenes from his childhood are re-enacted by the Chabrol family, with a special appearance by Stephane Audran , Chabrol's wife, and star of many of his films,
' I prefer to see blood spilt in bourgeois homes - like to see them suffer a little.'
Introducing Thomas Chabrol as the young Claude.
Provocative and constantly entertaining ... A new and ambitious approach to TV biography. (THE GUARDIAN) Film editor PAUL HUMFRESS
Director ALAN YENTOB