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	Les Diaboliques (film) . Enpsychlopedia
		Les Diaboliques is a 1955 fl-and-white film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret.
		It has often been likened to the films of Alfred Hitchcock in that it is still creepy even when you have seen it before and know how it comes out.
		The film gained additional press when only five years after its release, Véra Clouzot died of a heart attack at age 47, similar to the way her character in the film died.
	enpsychlopedia.org /psypsych/Les_Diaboliques_(film) (318 words)

	Les Diaboliques
		Les diaboliques is not a masterpiece to rank with such earlier Clouzot films as Le corbeau or Le salaire de la peur, but its particular contradictions allow the principal aspects of what was later to be dubbed the "tradition of quality" to be clearly observed.
		Les diaboliques is set in one of Clouzot's favorite locations—a shabby, rundown provincial school—and the tensions here between a bullying headmaster, his ailing wife and forceful mistress are methodically set up.
		In Les diaboliques Clouzot is tempted into a display of his own narrative skills, and the logic of the film, which has plotted its first murder with brutal precision, is slowly taken apart.
	www.filmreference.com /Films-De-Dr/Les-Diaboliques.html (783 words)

	#36: Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Diabolique is one of those rare thrillers that triumphs both in terms of style (the fl-and-white photography exudes atmosphere — you can feel it seeping from the screen) and plot.
		Diabolique's twisty storyline is filled with surprises, the biggest and most ambiguous of which doesn't occur until the closing moments.
		Diabolique tells the story of two women who engage in an unlikely conspiracy to murder one man. The intended victim is Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse), a despicable person who abuses his women while flaunting his mistress in front of his wife.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /top100/36.html (353 words)

	Susan Hayward / Les Diaboliques
		Les Diaboliques (The Fiends) is an icy masterpiece of murder, mystery, and suspense, and was a top grossing film in 1955.
		His film is a study in how to imply rather than show horror, keeping the spectator in a state of continued suspense, only to be released in the few final frames.
		She gives an illuminating, in-depth textual analysis of the film and compares it with its U.S. remake, which, juxtaposed with the original and the book on which it is based, highlights the great staying power of Clouzot's version, still popular with international audiences half a century after its première.
	www.press.uillinois.edu /f05/hayward.html (341 words)

	Movie Reviews
		Les bruits dans ce film sont différents de tous les films à suspense que je n'avais jamais vue, parce qu'il n'y a pas de musique.
		Les Diaboliques était un film fantastique parce que Clouzot a inclu de bons effets avec le bruit et l'éclairage, et il a développé une intrigue intéressante avec beaucoup de complications.
		Later on in the film, one night by chance, Baptiste again sees Garance at a pub and wins her over another man. He takes her to a room for the night, but out of a combination of shyness and being a gentleman, he misses his opportunity to be with her.
	campus.lakeforest.edu /~hahn/fr333drama.html (11524 words)

	Les Diaboliques
		Thematically, Les Diaboliques is a bogstandard story of betrayal and revenge which foregrounds a vision of the female villain drawn from film noir.
		Had the film been made twenty years previously by a director emerging out of the surrealist/impressionist school, a sense of the burden of religious belief and repression might have been an actual theme, but here in the post-war world it is nothing more than a plot device which adds minor complication.
		Les Diaboliques is a well crafted potboiler which will entertain genre fans and give them more than their money's worth in terms of technical quality.
	homepage.eircom.net /~obrienh/diabol.htm (908 words)

	week one essays ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The uniqueness of this film and the crime itself is the collaboration between the wife and the mistress.
		The two main characters in Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Les Diaboliques, Mademoiselle Delasalle and Mademoiselle Horner, simultaneously experience both sides of penis envy; Delasalle, the weaker of the two, is intimidated by Michel, her doomed lover whom Mme.
		Les Diaboliques is a remarkable for presenting, in each scene, multiple forms of dialogue and visual figurative context that helps the viewer accept the ending of the movie.
	members.cox.net /necco2000/week01.htm (2316 words)

	Les Diaboliques / Diabolique / Henri-Georges Clouzot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Les Diaboliques is considered by many to be the most suspenseful thriller ever made, easily in the same league as Hitchcock’s better films.
		Although the film begins quite slowly and innocently, it very quickly becomes thoroughly compelling, to the point that the viewer dare not take his eyes off the screen for a second.
		Clouzet directs the film with the skill of a true master of the genre, maximising contributions from his actors and photographers.
	frenchfilms.topcities.com /nf_Les_diaboliques_rev.html (574 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Scum of the earth
		Le Corbeau was made by a film company controlled by the Nazis, and that made for some suspicions that the film was collaborationist; this was the more easily felt in that the movie is so horrified at the texture of French provincial life.
		But Les Diaboliques is a little along the lines of Psycho: it leaves you wanting to be clean again, yet redefines all our feelings about baths and showers.
		I'm not sure that the film is really so profound (in part because nothing can curb the show-off in Picasso), but it was a gimmick and a modest sensation, as well as a final discovery that there was something in life Clouzot cared about.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,4120,1005900,00.html (1403 words)

	Diabolique (1996)
		Les Diaboliques/The Fiends (1955) is perhaps one of the greatest thrillers ever made.
		The original film created real anxiety by constantly cutting back to the pool as the body failed to surface and with each revelation of something that showed that the husband was still alive.
		The 1955 film was a template for a whole genre of films in the ensuing decade; the 1996 film vanishes without any distinction amid a horde of modern psycho-sexual thrillers.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/diabolique96.htm (925 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Les Diaboliques [1954]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"Les Diaboliques" is a highly influential French psychological drama - the staccato music at the start has the monotonous tension which is generated at the beginning of 'Psycho', and the film was much enjoyed by Hitchcock himself.
		Les Diaboliques is an unsettling and beautifully-paced study of betrayal, mistrust and guilt.
		The end caption of the film pleads with the audience not to reveal the ending of the film to any of their friends, and once you've seen it you'll understand why.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005UDXP (855 words)

	Diabolique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Les Diaboliques (film), a 1955 French film starring Simone Signoret retitled Diabolique for its United States release
		Diabolique (1996 film), a 1996 United States remake of Les Diaboliques starring Sharon Stone
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diabolique (112 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Edinburgh Festival 2003 preview pt.2 - Film noir's enfant terrible
		Yet Clouzot, the subject of a retrospective at this year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, directed 11 films, wrote close to 30 screenplays and was one of the most controversial and accomplished filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s.
		In the psychological horror film Les Diaboliques, for example, he cast his wife Vera as a woman with a heart condition in the full knowledge that she had a heart condition of her own.
		An unsettling film, its much imitated plot twist left audiences reeling (a message from Clouzot in the final frame pleaded with viewers not to reveal it to anyone) and cemented his reputation as the "French Hitchcock".
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=924&id=740052003 (947 words)

	The Oscar Guy: 1954 Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		While some of the acting leaves a lot to be desired and the surprise ending won't be surprising to some (especially if you've seen other films with similar plots based on this one), but it is still an enjoyable viewing experience.
		Extremely well written, "Diaboliques" is one of those rare films that blend its intelligent writing, directing and production elements (cinematography and editing) to make a terrific cinematic film.
		"Les Diaboliques" is easily one of the best French foreign language films ever made and one of the finest crafted suspense thrillers in all of cinema.
	www.oscarguy.com /Reviews/54.html (379 words)

	Henri-Georges Clouzot
		Clouzot even implicates the audience, as the opening of the film features a POV shot from the murderer's perspective (this may be the earliest subjective camera murder in cinema).
		Le Corbeau was funded by Continental, a film company with pro-Nazi interests, and at the time the film was interpreted as blatantly anti-French, leading to Clouzot and his co-writer Louis Chavance's denunciation as collaborators by the CLCF (Comité de Libération du Cinéma Français) and, according to Clouzot, threatened with execution on London Radio.
		Les Diaboliques has one of the most famous and influential twist endings ever, and the film was a huge commercial success, something unprecedented for a foreign-language film at that time.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/05/clouzot.html (4691 words)

	Movie Reviews by Edwin Jahiel
		When his film was shown there was a final "don't divulge the end" plea to the audience.
		In the French film, the mistress was the excellent, already famous Simone Signoret; the wife was the unknown Vera Clouzot, then the director's wife.
		As in the French film, Nicole is the strong one of the pair, Mia by far the weaker.
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/diaboliq.htm (943 words)

	Incredible Brightness of Seeing: Les Diaboliques
		Les Diaboliques is the classic French suspense film from 1955, starring the incomparably beautiful
		While it has lost a little of its bite in the ensuing 50 years, it is still an excellent and taunt film.
		That doesn't seem to be any less foreign than "Les Diaboliques", and it makes a whole lot less sense, because there are multiple devils in this story.
	www.anaze.us /HomeTheater/archives/review/les_diaboliques.html (631 words)

	The Edge Film, DVD, video: Les Diaboliques (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Vera Clouzot and Simone Signoret are vulnerable wife and self-confident mistress respectively to Paul Meurisse's tyrannical, bullying headmaster in a seedy, decaying boarding-school stocked with brats and self-serving teachers.
		As the film opens, the women are about to swing into painstakingly plotted revenge, luring the violent Delasalle to his death.
		One part suspense-thriller, one part classy ghost movie, Les Diaboliques is currently set for the Hollywood remake treatment, pushing the thing before the cameras again, with Isabelle Adjani and, surprise surprise, Sharon Stone.
	www.theedge.abelgratis.co.uk /filmsaf/lesdiaboliques.htm (380 words)

	Diabolique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Les Diaboliques (The She-Devils) (1874), a collection of short stories, each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits acts of violence, crime, or revenge.--http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Am%E9d%E9e_Barbey_d%27Aurevilly [Jul 2005]
		It has often been likened to the films of Alfred Hitchcock in that it is still creepy even when you have seen it before and know how it comes out.
		The writers of the novel "Celle Qui N'Etait Plus", Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, are credited with early use, if not coinage, of the term film noir, which as also been used to describe Les Diaboliques.
	www.jahsonic.com /Diabolique.html (274 words)

	McGuffin Archive
		The main film of the evening was the classic 1957 comedy The Smallest Show On Earth and this was accompanied by a series of shorter films reflecting the venue's 72 year history.
		Hitchcock, who appeared in a number of her father's films including 'Psycho', sent her personal letter of support after hearing that Waltham Forest was in danger of losing its only surviving cinema - the last in the area where her father was born.
		Various films including 'Hue and Cry' and 'Bend It Like Beckham' were screened at The Epicentre in Leytonstone and the Society also became involved in organising the first ever Walthamstow Arts Festival for the weekend of 6-7 September.
	www.stalinism.co.uk /McGuffin_Archive.asp (3494 words)

	Stars of French Film: Biographies
		Married to the film-maker Henri-Georges Clouzot Véra was directed by her husband in her first film the 1951 thriller Le Salaire de la peur in which she appeared alongside Charles Vanel and Yves Montand.
		In a short film career Clouzot only performed in films directed by Henri-Georges the most famous of which was undoubtedly the 1954 thriller Les Diaboliques.
		Véra died suddenly of a heart attack in 1960 at the age of 39 an ironic real-life enactment of the fate of her most celebrated screen character, Christina.
	www.shef.ac.uk /f/frenchfilmstars/biogclouzot.html (134 words)

	Psycho, Background of the Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The juxtaposition of subtle humor and the grotesque was unsettling, beautifully illustrated in the scene where Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) sinks the car belonging to Marion Crane (Janet Leigh).
		The film tricked the audience into believing it was telling one story, then shifted to another in a shocking yet seamless manner.
		The shower sequence, in which Marion Crane is brutally murdered, was a sensation with audiences who saw the film when it premiered.
	www.editorsguild.com /newsletter/directory/background.html (485 words)

	Diaboliques, Les (1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The film is based on Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac's novel "Celle qui n'était plus" (She Who Was No More).
		Alfred Hitchcock also attempted to buy the rights to this novel; Boileau and Narcejac subsequently wrote "D'Entre les Morts" (From Among the Dead) especially for Hitchcock, who filmed it as Vertigo (1958).
		Even if you do not normally watch fl-and-white films or foreign movies (this is in French), if you enjoy thrillers, watch "Les Diaboliques" as soon as you have the chance.
	imdb.com /title/tt0046911 (473 words)

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		This 1955 film remains one of the greatest murder mystery, suspense thrillers ever created.
		It won a special Edgar award in 1956 as well as honors for Best Foreign Film from the New York Critics Circle in 1955.
		We loved it - Diabolique is a masterpiece - and we chose not to provide any detailed commentary so we wouldn't spoil any of the fun....
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