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Diabolique
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1955 film by Henri-Georges Clouzot
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Diabolique, originally titled Les Diaboliques, is a 1955 French film noir, thriller and drama directed and produced by Henri-Georges Clouzot, who co-wrote the screenplay with Boileau-Narcejac, based on the novel She Who Was No More. Filmed in Paris and shot in black-and-white, it stars Simone Signoret, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel and Michel Serrault, with cinematography by Armand Henri Julien Thirard and a score by Georges Van Parys.
Running 118 minutes, the film received the Louis Delluc Prize. It has a derivative work titled Diabolique.
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7.9The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Cast
- Véra Clouzot as Christina Delassalle
- Simone Signoret as Nicole Horner
- Paul Meurisse as Michel Delassalle
- Charles Vanel as Police Inspector Alfred Fichet
- Jean Brochard as Plantiveau
- Pierre Larquey as Mr. Drain
Themes
- wife
- female lover
- morgue
- swimming pool
- teacher
- plan gone wrong
- mistress
- black and white
- french noir
- boys' boarding school
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Screenplay by
- Henri-Georges Clouzot Jérôme Géronimi René Masson Frédéric Grendel
- Based on
- Celle qui n'était plus , by Boileau-Narcejac
- Produced by
- Henri-Georges Clouzot Georges Lourau
- Starring
- Simone Signoret Véra Clouzot Paul Meurisse Charles Vanel
- Cinematography
- Armand Thirard
- Edited by
- Madeleine Gug
- Music by
- Georges Van Parys
- Production companies
- Filmsonor Vera Film
- Distributed by
- Cinédis
- Release date
- 29 January 1955 ( 1955-01-29 )
- Running time
- 117 minutes
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Award
- Louis Delluc Prize
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- France
- Original language
- French
- Based on
- She Who Was No More
- Director
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Screenwriter
- Boileau-Narcejac
- Composer
- Georges Van Parys
- Producer
- Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Cinematographer
- Armand Henri Julien Thirard
- Narrative location
- France
- Filming location
- Paris
- Duration
- 114
- FilmAffinity ID
- 159554
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1955-01-29
- title
- Les Diaboliques
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- derivative work
- Diabolique
- review score
- 95%
- aspect ratio (W:H)
- Academy ratio
- Commons category
- Les Diaboliques (film)
Sources (10)
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Encyclopedic overview
Les Diaboliques ( French: [le djabɔlik], lit. transl. The Diabolical Ones or Diabolical Women, released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends) is a 1955 French noir psychological thriller film co-written and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and starring Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, and Charles Vanel. The story blends elements of psychological thriller, crime drama and psychological horror, with the plot focusing on a woman and her husband's mistress who conspire to murder the man. It is based on the 1952 novel Celle qui n'était plus (lit. transl. The One Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac.
Clouzot, after finishing The Wages of Fear (1953), optioned the screenplay rights to the novel, preventing Alfred Hitchcock from making the film. The film helped inspire Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). Robert Bloch, the author of the novel Psycho, stated in an interview that his all-time favorite horror film was Les Diaboliques.
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