Due to the size of each gallery, the films have been split into separate posts. Please click the links below for the galleries.
Cop au Vin Gallery
Inspector Lavardin Gallery
Madame Bovary Gallery
Betty Gallery (NSFW)
Torment Gallery
Extra Features
DISC ONE: Cop au Vin
- High definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
- Original lossless French PCM mono audio
- Optional English Subtitles
- NEW commentary by film critic Ben Sachs
- NEW interview with film historian Ian Christie about the cinema of Claude Chabrol (1080p; 12:35)
- Claude Chabrol at the BFI, Chabrol discusses his career in this hour long archival interview conducted onstage at the National Film Theatre in 1994 (1080p; 1:14:35)
- Claude Chabrol, Jean Poiret & Stephane Audran in conversation, an archival Swiss TV episode in which the director and cast discuss Cop Au Vin (Poulet au vinaigre) (1080p; 29:38)
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny (1080p; 3:14)
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol (1080p; 21:43)
- Theatrical Trailer (1080p; 2:16)
- Image Gallery (chapter breaks; 0:24)
DISC TWO: Inspector Lavardin
- High definition (1080p) Blu-ray presentation
- Original lossless French PCM mono audio
- Optional English Subtitles
- NEW commentary by film critic Ben Sachs
- NEW Why Chabrol?, an interview with film critic Sam Wigley about why the films of Claude Chabrol remain essential viewing (1080p; 16:07)
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny (1080p; 2:46)
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol (1080p; 33:58)
- Theatrical Trailer (1080p; 2:14)
- Image Gallery (chapter breaks; 0:10)
DISC THREE: Madame Bovary
- NEW 4K restoration
- Original lossless French PCM mono audio
- Optional English Subtitles
- NEW commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger
- NEW Imagining Emma: Madame Bovary on screen, a visual essay by film historian Pamela Hutchinson (1080p; 16:06)
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny (1080p; 2:31)
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol (1080p; 37:59)
- Theatrical Trailer (1080p; 1:22)
- Image Gallery (chapter breaks; 0:00)
DISC FOUR: Betty
- NEW 4K restoration
- Original lossless French PCM mono audio
- Optional English subtitles
- NEW commentary by film critic Kat Ellinger
- NEW Betty, from Simenon to Chabrol, a visual essay by French Cinema historian Ginette Vincendeau (1080p; 16:16)
- NEW An Interview with Ros Schwartz, an interview with the English translator of the Georges Simenon novel on which the film is based (1080p; 15:21)
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol (1080p; 2:56)
- Scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol (1080p; 17:39)
- Theatrical Trailer (1080p; 0:53)
- Image Gallery (chapter breaks; 0:08)
DISC FIVE: Torment
- NEW 4K restoration
- Original lossless French PCM stereo audio
- Optional English subtitles
- NEW commentary by film critics Alexandra HellerNicholas and Josh Nelson
- On Henri Georges Clouzot, an archival interview with Claude Chabrol in which he talks about fellow director Henri Georges Clouzot (Les diaboliques), whose original attempt to make L’enfer was abandoned, and how the project came to Chabrol (1080p; 11:44)
- An Interview with Marin Karmitz, an archival interview with Marin Karmitz, Chabrol’s most frequent producer (1080p; 25:49)
- Archive introduction by film scholar Joël Magny (1080p; 3:15)
- Select scene commentaries by Claude Chabrol (1080p; 39:25)
- Theatrical Trailer (1080p; 1:21)
- Image Gallery (chapter breaks; 0:02)
BOXSET
- NEW Fully illustrated 80page collector’s booklet of writing on the films by film critics Martyn Conterio, Kat Ellinger, Philip Kemp, and Sam Wigley plus select archival material
- NEW Limited edition packaging featuring commissioned artwork by Tony Stella
Packaging Details
