TRIBUTE TO FRENCH ACTOR
MICHEL SERRAULT

Les Fantômes du Chapelier

Award-winning French actor Michel Serrault (1928-2007) made his film debut in 1954. One of his earliest films was in Henri-Georges Clouzot's masterpiece thriller Les Diaboliques (1955) starring Simone Signoret in a featured part. From there he developed into a supremely talented performer who went on to appear in hundreds of character film studies. With a chameleon-like approach to his work, he proved himself not only a gifted and witty farceur but a dark and compelling dramatic actor capable of going to extreme depths in order to play a character.
As accomplished and versatile the well-loved French actor Michel Serrault proved to be over the course of five decades, American audiences still remember this actor for one role only - that of the neurotic, outrageously flamboyant drag performer Albin (aka Zaza) in the side-splitting French gay farce La Cage aux folles (1978). Les Fantômes du Chapelier, murder mystery, based on Georges Simenon’s novel and directed by Claude Chabrol is an opportunity to see him in one of his darkest roles, the one of a homicidal maniac who goes on a killing spree in a small French town.

Thur, Oct. 18 at 7:30 PM
Adults: $12 - Students: $8