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Film · 1955 · Psychological thriller
Diabolique
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
1955
France
★ 7.1 editorial score
Clouzot got to the material just before Hitchcock could buy it and made the more frightening film: a wife and a mistress conspire against the same terrible man.
“The movie has fun with the usual whodunit details: The split-second timetables, and the sleepy old guard who must open the gates to let anyone in or out of the school grounds...Then comes the ending, inspired by "Gaslight," in which a woman is either going mad, or nothing is as it seems. "Diabolique" is so well constructed that even today it works on its intended level — up until, say, the last 30 seconds.”
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1955Depicts 1950s
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