A collection of eight films from one of the leading lights of the nouvelle vague, now one of the elder statesmen of French Cinema, Claude Chabrol, also affectionately known as 'The French Hitchcock'. Features Les Biches, La Femme Infidele, Que La Bete Meure, Le Boucher, Juste Avant La Nuit, Les Noces Rouge, Nada and Madame Bovary.
Claude Chabrol is considered a master in the mystery genre - so much so that he is affectionately known as the "French Hitchcock" - and is credited with starting the "nouvelle vague" French film movement that spawned Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut. This set stars some of France's greatest ever actors including his long-time muse Stephane Audran, Michel Bouquet and Francois Perrot, plus Academy Award winner Rod Steiger.
This multi award-winning homage to the love of cinema tells the story of Salvatore, now a successful film director, returning home for the funeral of Alfredo, his old friend who was projectionist at the local cinema throughout his childhood. Soon memories of his first love affair with the beautiful Elena and all the high and lows that shaped his life come flooding back, as Salvatore reconnects with the community he left 30 years earlier.
Nominated for a BAFTA and Golden Globe this beautiful love story tells the story of Tita, the youngest of three daughters in a Mexican family in the early 1900s. Being the youngest she is forbidden to marry and instead must look after her mother. She falls in love with Pedro, who asks for her hand in marriage. However, Tita's mother refuses and offers him Rosaura, Tita's elder sister, instead. Pedro accepts Rosaura just to be close to Tita. Tita finds this too much to bear and reacts by pouring all her emotions into her cooking, with dramatic results.
