French filmmaker dies

Associated Press

PARIS

French director Claude Chabrol, one of the founders of the New Wave movement whose films probed the latent malice beneath the placid surface of bourgeois life, died Sunday. He was 80.

A prolific director, Chabrol made more than 70 films and TV productions during his more than half-century-long career. His first movie, 1958’s “Le Beau Serge” won him considerable critical acclaim and was widely considered a sort of manifesto for the New Wave, or “Nouvelle vague” movement of the 1950s.

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