Mean Girls: Claude Chabrol’s Dangerous Women

This discussion looks at the elements that draw us to the complex, morally ambiguous and compelling female characters that populate Claude Chabrol’s work. Few directors have understood women as complex, dangerous agents of their own destiny quite like Claude Chabrol. This panel brings together experts, including filmmaker Prano Bailey-Bond, film scholar Virginie Selavy, filmmaker and author Sean Hogan, and season curator Catherine Wheatley, to examine the extraordinary actresses at the heart of his work – from Stéphane Audran’s cool, enigmatic wives and Sandrine Bonnaire’s coiled, working-class fury to Isabelle Huppert’s inscrutable, unrepentant transgressors – and to ask what his unflinching, unsentimental gaze on women reveals about the society he spent a career dissecting. Tickets £6.50. Joint ticket available with Les Biches on Wednesday 23 September 20:40 NFT1. Tickets £17, concessions £14 (Members pay £2.50 less). Book in person at the box office or by phone on 020 7928 3232.