Shakespeare in Performance: Film
Ophélia (1962, Claude Chabrol)
| Title | Ophélia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1962 |
| Release Locations | France |
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
| Medium | Black & white video with sound |
| Length | 1 hrs, 45 mins, 1 segments |
| Languages | French |
| Play Connections | Hamlet (derivative) |
Description
The director of this film, Claude Chabrol (b. 1930), is well known as a Nouvelle Vague filmmaker and critic, one of the coteries whose serious interest in film as art was inscribed in the pages of Cahiers du Cinéma, the celebrated film journal. An admirer of Alfred Hitchcock, Chabrol shows that influence in the suspenseful sequences in Ophélia, as in the opening episode that so portentously depicts the funeral of Yvan's father. Chabrol's dislike of the French petty bourgeois also surfaces in the tavern scenes where the locals taunt the neurotic Yvan. The film was shot on location in rural France. The village name, "Erneles," is of course an attempt to link it to "Elsinore."
Description from Shakespeare on Screen : an International Filmography and Videography by Kenneth S. Rothwell and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. ©1990 Kenneth S. Rothwell. Cited by permission. — Added 2008-11-14
Cast Overview
Production Team and Crew Overview
| Director | Claude Chabrol |
|---|---|
| Composer | Pierre Jansen |
| Choreography | Jean Rabier |
| Costumes | Clément Ollier |
| Conductor | Andre Girard |
| Production | Martial Matthieu |
Company Overview
| Producer | Boreal |
|---|---|
| Producer | Lux Compagne Cinématographique de France |
Production information courtesy of: Kenneth Rothwell