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Based on the Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac unusual CELLE QUI N’ETAIT PLUS, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1955 DIABOLIQUE is easily among the most influential films of world cinema, leaving its trace on everything from Alfred Hitchcock’s VERTIGO and PSYCHO to William Castle’s THE TINGLER–but even so, and while Hitchcock’s masterpieces can be said to at least equal the Clouzot unique, few if any of the films spawned by DIABOLIQUE ever bested it.
Variously known as DIABOLIQUE, LES DIABOLIQUES, and THE DEVILS, the film presents a complex epic. Christina Delasalle (Vera Clouzot, wife of director Henri-Georges Clouzot), is a remarkably resplendent and considerably wealthy woman who has the anxiety to suffer from aesthetic health, personal timidity, and brutish husband Michel (Paul Meurisse.) The two operate a boys’ school that Christina owns, and among the teachers is hard-nosed Nicole Horner (Simone Signoret), who has become Michel’s mistress but who finds Michel every bit as bad as wife Christina. An unlikely alliance springs up between the two women, and together they conspire to assassinate Michel and thereafter bustle the school for themselves. But although the execute seems to go as planned, the body goes missing, and the two women suddenly rep themselves taunted by mysterious notes and weird happenings. Has Michel survived the attempt on his life? Or has the abolish been discovered and the stage is being dwelling for blackmail?
In the wake of DIABOLIQUE’s international success, the epic has been told in so many variations that many may think the unusual has lost some of the shock value it possessed when it first debuted, but even so the film has distinguished to offer. This is particularly proper in terms of style of performances. Director Clouzot endows the film with a sense of visual decay and a near-documentary tone that merge to form one of the most chilling atmospheres ever captured on mask. While Signoret’s performance of the excited mistress is the more widely renowned, she is equaled by Vera Clouzot, who has the more complex role and whose performance must carry the weight of the film’s most disturbing moments; together they fabricate a truly great synergy of the most lethal kind.
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I have seen DIABOLIQUE in several different releases, and while the Criterion DVD is somewhat glitchy it is easily the best version available; one should avoid all other releases, particularly the truly inappropriate release by Madacy. Strongly recommended, particularly to fans of internation cinema and classic suspense.
Director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s DIABOLIQUE is one of these movies we, in french speaking countries, have seen at least a dozen times on TV in our teen days. Always with pleasure. In fraction, because of the terrific cast but mainly because of the whodunit set.
And now, a lot of years after (ten ? ), I bought the DVD correct after its release. I don’t know exactly why, DIABOLIQUE being not the kind of movie you always build in your 10 best list. Maybe it was due to Vera Clouzot, the director’s wife, who appeared only in a few movies with her spanish accent and who, in DIABOLIQUE, with her hair nicely combed, plays a character similar to the heroins of the fairy tales of our childhood. Or is it Simone Signoret who, with Anna Magnani and Bette Davis, is a star whose light hasn’t venerable with the years passing by. Paul Meurisse perhaps? Or Charles Vanel, or Michel Serrault, already perfect in a amusing role?
What I know for certain is that I can peep DIABOLIQUE again and again without being tired of it. In my belief, it is a classic movie in the most excellent sense of the term.
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No extra-features with the movie, sound perfect but a copy with some scratches and often grainy. Weird when one thinks of the quality of Criterion’s work on, for instance, Ingmar Bergman’s THE SEVENTH SEAL.
A DVD for your library.
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