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Les Diaboliques [1954]
 
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Les Diaboliques [1954]

VHS ~ Simone Signoret
4.8 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)

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Product details

  • Actors: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
  • Directors: Henri-Georges Clouzot
  • Format: Black & White, PAL, Subtitled
  • Language French
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Arrow Films
  • VHS Release Date: 16 Jan 1995
  • Run Time: 116 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004CMQL
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,427 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

    Popular in these categories:

    #1 in  Video > Classic Films > International > 1950s
    #8 in  Video > World Cinema > French > Drama
    #12 in  Video > Classic Films > Drama > 1950s

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review
Legend has it that Henri-Georges Clouzot beat out Alfred Hitchcock to secure the rights to this novel, which proved to be a veritable blueprint for an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery and suspense. Véra Clouzot plays the sickly wife of a callous headmaster of a provincial boarding school going to seed, and the commanding Simone Signoret is the headmaster's mistreated mistress. Together they plot and carry out his murder, a brutal drowning that director Clouzot documents in chilly detail, but the corpse disappears and a nosy detective starts sniffing around the grounds as threatening notes taunt the women. Clouzot's thriller is as precise and accomplished a work as anything in Hitchcock's canon, a film of gruelling suspense and startling shocks in an overcast, grey world of decay, but his icy manipulations lack the human dimension and emotional resonance of the master of suspense. Many critics have accused the film of being misanthropic, and Clouzot's attitude toward his characters is bitter at best, contemptuous at worst. The viewer is left on the outside looking in, but the razor precision and terrifying twists deliver a sleek, bleak spectacle worthy of attention. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

Synopsis
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot cast his own wife Vera as the hapless victim in this acclaimed masterpiece of the macabre. A wife plans the murder of her tyrant husband, with the help of his mistress. French dialogue with English subtitles.

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