Diabolique [VHS]

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	Actor(s):	Simone Signoret Véra Clouzot Paul Meurisse Charles Vanel Jean Brochard
	Video by:	Madacy Records
	Sales Rank:	200521

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Actor(s):
Simone Signoret
Véra Clouzot
Paul Meurisse
Charles Vanel
Jean Brochard

Creators:
Henri-Georges Clouzot (Producer)
Henri-Georges Clouzot (Writer)
Frédéric Grendel (Writer)
Jérôme Géronimi (Writer)
Pierre Boileau (Writer)
René Masson (Writer)
Thomas Narcejac (Writer)

Director(s):
Henri-Georges Clouzot

Recording label: Madacy Records
EAN: 9786303935126
Binding: VHS Tape
ISBN: 6303935125
Format: Black & White, EP, NTSC,
Release Date: 1997-09-19
Universal product code (UPC): 056775605537
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Unrated

Amazon.com
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

Running time: 107 minutes
Language: English (Unknown)
Language: English (Dubbed)