Mean Girls: Claude Chabrol’s Dangerous Women

This discussion looks at the elements that draw us to the complex, morally ambiguous and compelling female characters that populate Claude Chabrol’s work.

  • Total running time 90min

Few directors have understood women as complex, dangerous agents of their own destiny quite like Claude Chabrol. This panel brings together experts, including filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond, film scholar Virginie Selavy and season curator Catherine Wheatley, to examine the extraordinary actresses at the heart of his work – from Stéphane Audran’s cool, enigmatic wives and Sandrine Bonnaire’s coiled, working-class fury to Isabelle Huppert’s inscrutable, unrepentant transgressors – and to ask what his unflinching, unsentimental gaze on women reveals about the society he spent a career dissecting.

Tickets £6.50.

Joint ticket available with Les Biches on Wednesday 23 September 20:40 NFT1. Tickets £17, concessions £14 (Members pay £2.50 less). Book in person at the box office or by phone on 020 7928 3232.