A Study in Failure Kam François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol

François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol had changed the rules of film-making forever

who in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s liberated screens around the world with a series of films that challenged our assumptions of what the medium could offer and how stories could be told - all of them snapping with style as much as they delivered on ideas

no-nonsense approach to what can be a minefield for many creatives

experience and downright cunning

these bites of mundane madness mark the arrival of an extraordinary new talent in fiction and will leave you hungering for more

A Study in Failure Kam François Truffaut and Claude ChabrolEvery politician's rise to power is a story of success and failure, accompanied by tantalising what might have beens. The career of Winston Churchill was no exception, with his eight months prior to becoming Prime Minister as First Lord of the Admiralty marked by the loss of important warships, the planning of disastrous expeditions and the design of impractical weapons. Based on archival and biographical research, this account argues that Churchill's