Movie legend has it that when director Henri-George Clouzot bought the film rights to the novel Celle qui n’était plus (She Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, he beat Alfred Hitchcock to the punch by mere hours. While Clouzot undoubtedly made a fine movie, I'd love to see a version from an alternates inverse where Hitchcock got there first...
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Showing posts with label Diaboliques - Les. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diaboliques - Les. Show all posts
Sunday, 14 September 2014
Les Diaboliques - Lisa's Review
I start this weeks movie with a surprise announcement! I enjoyed a movie from 1955!! There are of course a few old movies I love, but in general this is not the rule. It's a great thing to have another movie to challenge my norm.
So, the movie. Les Diaboliques as I'm sure you have already gathered is a french movie. It is directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. Rather than put this movie in the 'horror' section, I would err more to the side of thriller. There is a suggestion of the paranormal within the movie, but not so much as to pull it away from the realms of thriller.
The movie follows the story of a love triangle. Maybe I should say hate triangle. The setting is a boarding school for boys, run by the horrid misogynistic Michel Delassalle, but owned by his impossibly beautiful, but very ill wife Christina. Making up the triangle is Michels mistress Nicole Horner who teaches at the school.
Michel is a violent, abusive, angry man who not only mentally and physically abuses his wife, but also his mistress Nicole. He stays with his frail and sickly wife, who has a heart condition only to wait for her death so he inherits the school she owns, Together, his wife and mistress, tired of the abuse, decide that they will get rid of him, by any means necessary.
Sunday, 7 September 2014
Week 173 - Les Diaboliques
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