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Diabolique (The Criterion Collection) Spine #35)
Diabolique (The Criterion Collection) Spine #35)
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Released: 1999-01-26
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A sadistic schoolmaster is murdered by his wife and mistress, but when his body cannot be found they are terrorized by his seeming presence everywhere
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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 grueling suspense and startling shocks in an overcast, gray world of decay, but his icy manipulations lack the human dimension and emotional resonance of the master of suspense. The film has been accused of being misanthropic by many critics, 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
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Diabolique (The Criterion Collection) Spine #35)
- DVD: 0 pages (1999-01-26)
- Publisher: Criterion
- Label: Criterion
- Starring: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Jean Brochard
- Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
- Encoding: Region 1
- Format: Black & White, Color, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1,
- Rated: Unrated
- Studio: Criterion
- DVD Release Date: 1999-01-26
- Run Time: 116
- ISBN: 0780021940
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