Through the Looking Glass

Fassbinder/Chabrol, Chabrol/Lang. On Claude Chabrol’s 1977 ‘Alice, ou la dernière fugue,’ 1990 ‘Dr. M,’ and Sundry Other Titles

Claude Chabrol is a bit like one of those prolific murderers who, long after being locked away or sentenced to the chair, keeps adding to their body count tally as unaccounted-for corpses turn up buried around the countryside. There is more Chabrol to dig up all the time: a 52-minute adaptation of Henry James’s late tale “The Bench of Desolation” for Fr…