Léda

...a burst of rage against family propriety, a riotous basket of references to other movies, and a virtuosic display of giddily extravagant style.

Chabrol subscribe to a widespread movement in the French avant-garde to eliminate the artist's voice so that he can disclaim responsibility for what is being said. It seems a shifty endeavour, and vastly separate from the creative process.

Chabrol was a hedonist who made no bones about how much he relished food and sex, usually in that order.

Claude Chabrol's dissection of the living-dead bourgeoisie