The Hatter's Ghost

The Hatter's Ghost
	Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Claude Chabrol
Screenplay by	Claude Chabrol
Based on	Les fantômes du chapelier by; Georges Simenon
Starring	Michel Serrault; Charles Aznavour; Monique Chaumette
Music by	Matthieu Chabrol
Cinematography	Jean Rabier
Edited by	Monique Fardoulis
Production; company	Philippe Grumbach Productions; S.F.P.C.; Films A2
Release date	May 25, 1982;
Running time	120 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$2.9 million[1]

The Hatter's Ghost (French: "Les fantômes du chapelier") is a 1982 film directed by Claude Chabrol. It is based on the 1947 story Le Petit Tailleur et le Chapelier by Georges Simenon. It takes place in Brittany and was shot in the towns of Concarneau and Quimper.

Plot

Labbé, a hatter in a French provincial town, appears to lead the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour, Kachoudas, an Armenian tailor. After Labbé kills his own wife, he kills six of her friends to stop them from visiting her and prepares to murder a seventh, who dies naturally. As a substitute, he murders the maid. Labbé soon confesses his crime to the dying Kachoudas. After getting drunk, he visits his favourite prostitute, Berthe, and kills her; he is found at the scene of the crime in the morning by police.

Principal cast

Actor	Role
Michel Serrault	Léon Labbé
Charles Aznavour	Kachoudas
Monique Chaumette	Madame Labbé
François Cluzet	Jeantet
Isabelle Sadoyan	Alice Kachoudas
Jean Champion	Senator Laude
Bernard Dumaine	Arnoult
Aurore Clément	Berthe

Critical reception

TV Guide rated the film with 2 1/2 out of 5 stars and commented:

Another Claude Chabrol film that neither fails nor lives up to his previous successes (LES BICHES, among others). Again he pays homage to Hitchcock with a psychopath, Michel Serrault, who murders his wife, then kills six of her elderly friends.[2]

From Time Out London:

The hatter (Serrault) is a mass strangler who allows his secret to be discovered by hangdog Cachoudas (Aznavour), the tubercular Armenian tailor opposite. The ensuing relationship seems unbelievably reckless, even with a mad hatter involved, and manifestly it's the Hitchcocko-Jesuitical theology about shared guilt which animates the picture... Chabrol locates his adaptation in an off-kilter time zone – little bit '30s, little bit '50s – that some may find the most intriguing aspect of the movie.[3]

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References

http://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7138
"The Hatter's Ghost Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2011-11-01.
"Les Fantômes du Chapelier Review. Movie Reviews – Film". Time Out London. Retrieved 2011-11-01.

External links

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[1] ttp://www.jpbox-office.com/fichfilm.php?id=7138

[2] "The Hatter's Ghost Review". Movies.tvguide.com. Retrieved 2011-11-01.

[3] "Les Fantômes du Chapelier Review. Movie Reviews – Film". Time Out London. Retrieved 2011-11-01.