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Quentin Tarantino Calls This French New Wave Filmmaker a “Bumbling Amateur”

The king of hot takes is back with another one.

If there is one thing you can count on Quentin Tarantino to do, it’s to give you his honest opinion on movies and filmmakers. The director has made a career out of paying homage to the exploitation and B-movies he adores, as well as classic films from almost every wave of filmmaking throughout the world.

But Tarantino isn’t always about praising films. His appreciation for lowbrow cinema is matched by his criticism of cinema’s most revered filmmakers who are often not alive to defend themselves.

During a Sight & Sound interview with Tarantino and his Video Archives Podcast co-host Roger Avary, Tarantino compared Claude Chabrol to French New Wave icon François Truffaut, particularly the thrillers that the director made later in his career.

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Author: Alyssa Miller
This article comes from No Film School and can be read on the original site.

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