An upstart critic for Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s and a financial force behind early French New Wave films in the early 60s, Claude Chabrol himself became a key director of the movement, Chabrol's filmmaking career spans nearly 35 years and some 45 films. They range from uninspired commercial projects (1964's "Marie-Chantal Contre le Docteur Kha"), to costly financial flops (1962's "Bluebeard"), to some of the darkest and most penetrating studies of obsession and, especially, murder ever to reach the screen....