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Claude Chabrol’s partnership with Isabelle Huppert (second only to his life-long collaboration with his original muse and wife Stéphane Audran), spanned nearly 40 years and seven films – six of which are presented in this series. Huppert’s striking beauty, chilly demeanor, and uncanny ability to inhabit every character she portrays proved a perfect fit for Chabrol’s stylish, methodical, slow-burn thrillers. Traversing a large range of and misconduct illegal behavior—teenage prostitute, abortionist, adulteress, petty swindler, cold-blooded killer—Huppert and Chabrol infuse their thorny characters with humanity, revealing victims of circumstance and time; “I have a knack for doing wrong,” one of them confesses, and the line doubles as a kind of artistic credo.