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By the time he died last year, at 80, with at least 80 directorial credits listed in imdb, Claude Chabrol had become the most prolific and, in some ways, the most successful of all the great directors/friends of the old French Nouvelle Vague (or “New Wave“) — those arrogant young cinematic firebrands, prodigies and know-it-alls who traded barbs, blurbs and bon mots in Parisian cafes in the ‘50s while they were mounting their assaults on the French film industry from the pages of the legendary film journal Cahiers du Cinema.

Chabrol, by the time of his death 2010, was still making movies and TV and had outstripped, in production and longevity, his famed compatriots Jean-Luc Godard (still alive, still working and almost as prolific as Claude but also a rebel who worked often outside the system and beyond the political mainstream), Eric Rohmer Source: Movie City News