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1001 Movies Chosen By Johanlefourbe (1001 movies items)" Notes: I was really impressed by the damned thing and I think it completely deserves its stellar reputation. Apparently, back in those days, the biggest rival to Alfred Hitchcock was the French director, Henri-George Clouzot. They were actually both competing to make this movie but, eventually, Clouzot was the one who had the honor to adapt this best-seller and he did it with great success as it became an instant classic. Indeed, some older movies didn’t grow old very well but this one is st"
“Stark, impressionistic photography and a suspenseful, decidedly baroque plot combine to elevate this horror-tinged thriller above the commonplace potboiler fare of the time. "Diabolique" is tonally reminiscent of Hitchcock, albeit more effectively woven with an unmistakable noirish streak. Henri-Georges Clouzot's ingenious direction is conversely realistic and expressionistic, catalysing its drama and tension from the conspiring females at the core of the story, spurred by a cool Simone Signoret and an agitated Vera Clouzet.
Loaded with peril, histrionics and disquiet from the outset, "Diabolique" executes a conspiratorial, sinuous storyline without registering as calculated artifice merely for entertainment purposes; the winding narrative course leads to an expected yet satisfy” read more
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My Favourite Movies, Year by Year (101 movies items)"1955: Les Diaboliques (Henri-Georges Clouzot) "
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (1950's) (126 movies items)" Notes: Eventually, I was really impressed by this movie and I think it completely deserves its stellar reputation. Apparently, back in those days, the biggest rival to Alfred Hitchcock was the French director, Henri-George Clouzot. They were actually both competing to make this movie but, eventually, Clouzot was the one who had the honor to adapt this best-seller and he did it with great success as it became an instant classic. Indeed, some older movies didn’t grow old very well but this one"
Slant’s 100 Greatest Horror Films – 2018 Edition (100 movies items)"Henri-Georges Clouzot was somehow a realist and expressionist in roughly disconcertingly equal measure. Diabolique‘s boarding school is portrayed with the stressed and rumble-ready textures of a real school, yet it also appears to exist in a realm of otherworldly myth that’s particularly embodied by the creepy pool into which Christina (Vera Clouzot) and Nicole (Simone Signoret) eventually decide to dump Michel’s (Paul Meurisse) body. The tedium of murder seems to be conveyed in unusually "
1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die (2020) (1001 movies items)" Notes: Eventually, I was really impressed by this movie and I think it completely deserves its stellar reputation. Apparently, back in those days, the biggest rival to Alfred Hitchcock was the French director, Henri-George Clouzot. They were actually both competing to make this movie but, eventually, Clouzot was the one who had the honor to adapt this best-seller and he did it with great success as it became an instant classic. Indeed, some older movies didn’t grow old very well but this one"
Fantastic Films of the '50s (29 movies items)"Directed by: Henri-Georges Clouzot The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; after the murder is committed, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women."
Project #1 -1001 Movies I Must see Before I die- (1167 movies items)" Rating iMDB: My Rating: Director: Actors: Genre: The Plot:"
500 Essential Cult Movies