Les Diaboliques
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Michel Delasalle, the tyrannical headmaster of a boys' school in Saint Cloud, where his wife Christine and his mistress Nicole also work. The two women decide to get rid of Delasalle and drown him in the bath before throwing the body in the swimming pool. But the corpse disappears. Then strange things start happening...
With : Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel
Screenplay : Henri-Georges Clouzot (d'après le roman Celle qui n'était plus de Pierre Boileau et Thomas Narcejac)
Image : Armand Thirard
Sound : William Robert Sivel
Decors : Léon Barsacq
Editing : Madeleine Gug
Music : Georges Van Parys
Screenplay : Henri-Georges Clouzot (d'après le roman Celle qui n'était plus de Pierre Boileau et Thomas Narcejac)
Image : Armand Thirard
Sound : William Robert Sivel
Decors : Léon Barsacq
Editing : Madeleine Gug
Music : Georges Van Parys
Production : Filmsonor
Distribution: Tamasa distribution
Distribution: Tamasa distribution
This psychological thriller, which won the Prix Louis Delluc in 1954, is a sadistic game of cat and mouse made up of false clues, masks and mirrors. André Bazin said it was Clouzot's best film: by intentionally playing with the audience's nerves, Clouzot perfectly masters the particularities of the film noir. After the success of Diaboliques, Alfred Hitchcock, who had been interested in buying the rights to Boileau and Narcejac's novel which was finally adapted by Clouzot, once again turned to the authors, who wrote D'Entre les morts (The Living and the Dead) for him and from which he made Vertigo.