Director

Claude Chabrol

French New Wave director of bourgeois crime stories, among them La Cérémonie (1995), in which a maid and a postal clerk kill the family she serves. One essay so far.

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Essays

The architecture of class in Parasite

Stairs, windows, sunlight and smell: how Bong Joon-ho builds a class system out of a house, then floods it.

Oct 2026