Audran

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Marid Audran is the typical gumshoe caught up in matters well above his station - a plot involving corrupt police, merciless crime lords and a series of gruesome murders.

December 2005 2005

BRIEF SYNOPSIS: Marid Audran is the typical gumshoe caught up in matters well above his station - a plot involving corrupt police, merciless crime lords and a series of gruesome murders.

REVIEW: When Gravity Fails by George Alec Effinger 2005

I read it back then, and remember loving the sordid Arab Budayeen world created, but hated how the protagonist Marid Audran becomes increasingly religious, increasingly hypocritical, increasingly cop-friendly, and increasingly in the pocket of the crime lord Friedlander “Papa” Bey.

RE-READING: A Fire in the Sun by George Alec Effinger darkerblogistan 2009

Mr. Chabrol went on to make a series of movies starring Audran that used this love-triangle formula, including "Le Femme Infidele" (1969), about a husband who kills his wife's lover.

Claude Chabrol, critic and filmmaker, dies at 80 2010

Mr. Chabrol eventually divorced Audran, and as their marriage ended, he found a new lead actress in Isabelle Huppert.

Claude Chabrol, critic and filmmaker, dies at 80 2010

Mr. Chabrol went on to make a series of movies starring Audran that used this love-triangle formula, including "Le Femme Infidele" (1969), about a husband who kills his wife's lover.

Claude Chabrol, critic and filmmaker, dies at 80 2010

He uses his "evil eye", like the voyeuristic writer in L'Oeil du Malin (The Third Lover, 1962) who secretly photographs a wife (Audran) with her lover, thus exposing the sham of what appeared to be a happy marriage.

Claude Chabrol obituary 2010

In 1968, Mr. Chabrol released of "Les Biches" ( "The Does"), a popular and critical success starring Audran about a lesbian relationship that is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a third player, a man.

Claude Chabrol, critic and filmmaker, dies at 80 2010

This was analysed in an equally masterful manner in Que La Bête Meure (The Beast Must Die, 1969) and Le Boucher, both featuring Yanne as, respectively, a nouveau-riche lout who kills a child in a hit-and-run accident, and an emotionally disturbed man who pays court to an equally lonely and repressed schoolmistress (Audran).

Claude Chabrol obituary 2010

In 1968, Mr. Chabrol released of "Les Biches" ( "The Does"), a popular and critical success starring Audran about a lesbian relationship that is thrown into chaos by the arrival of a third player, a man.

Claude Chabrol, critic and filmmaker, dies at 80 2010