Les Diaboliques

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A man's mistress and downtrodden wife join forces in this well-crafted noir thriller. Atmospheric and scary, with an ending-with-a-twist. As in Wages of Fear Clouzot builds up the claustrophobia and tension superbly. The atmosphere is stunning, the corpse has a life of its own and Serrault is genuinely chilling.

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Article - "Henri-Georges Clouzot: The Cinema of Pleurisy" by David Parkinson
Thursday 25th September 2003

Having failed to fulfil his naval, legal and journalistic ambitions, Henri-Georges Clouzot turned to screenwriting with Carmine Gallone’s Ma Cousine de Varsovie in 1931. Later the same year, he made his directorial debut with the short, La Terreur des Batig...  View article in full

 

 

 

 

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