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Les Diaboliques
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    Les Diaboliques: Dual Format Edition (Blu-ray Details)

    Unique ID Code: 0000141649
    Added by: David Beckett
    Added on: 27/4/2011 09:26

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    Created on Wednesday, 27th April 2011, 09:32
    Change Submitted by David Beckett

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    • Title changed from Les Diaboliques to Les Diaboliques: Dual Format Edition
    • Change #1 - See it, be amazed at it, but... BE QUIET ABOUT IT!DEAAAACDBGJFZjpgYBEBGFAAfter the success of The Wages of Fear (Le salaire de la peur) Henri-Georges Clouzot cemented his reputation with his masterpiece, Les diaboliques. <newline> <newline>Based on a novel by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac (who also wrote the novel on which Hitchcock’s Vertigo is based), Les diaboliques tells the story of a sadistic headmaster (Paul Meurisse) who brutalises his wife and mistress (Véra Clouzot and Simone Signoret) and their plot to murder him. Superbly edited with nail-biting suspense, the two women murder the headmaster and dump the body in the swimming pool, but when the pool is drained no corpse is found. An unsettling and beautifully-paced study of betrayal, mistrust and guilt, Les diaboliques is atmospherically shot in black and white, its murky tones hauntingly echo the moral ambiguity of its principals. <newline> <newline>An acknowledged influence on Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick among others, Les diaboliques is presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK.

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    Revision 1

    Created on Wednesday, 27th April 2011, 09:28
    Change Submitted by David Beckett

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      • Added tag Armand Thirard
      • Added tag Charles Vanel
      • Added tag Georges Poujouly
      • Added tag Georges Van Parys
      • Added tag Georges Van Parys
      • Added tag Henri-Georges Clouzot
      • Added tag Henri-Georges Clouzot
      • Added tag Henri-Georges Clouzot
      • Added tag Jean Brochard
      • Added tag Madeleine Gug
      • Added tag Michel Serrault
      • Added tag Noel Roquevert
      • Added tag Paul Meurisse
      • Added tag Pierre Boileau
      • Added tag Pierre Larquey
      • Added tag Simone Signoret
      • Added tag Therese Dorny
      • Added tag Thomas Narcejac
      • Added tag Vera Clouzot

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    Created on Wednesday, 27th April 2011, 09:26
    First Submitted by David Beckett