La esposa y la amante de un detestado director de colegio traman un plan para asesinarlo y contar al mismo tiempo con la coartada perfecta. Llevan a cabo el plan... pero su cuerpo desaparece... Leer todoLa esposa y la amante de un detestado director de colegio traman un plan para asesinarlo y contar al mismo tiempo con la coartada perfecta. Llevan a cabo el plan... pero su cuerpo desaparece.La esposa y la amante de un detestado director de colegio traman un plan para asesinarlo y contar al mismo tiempo con la coartada perfecta. Llevan a cabo el plan... pero su cuerpo desaparece.
- Dirección
- Guión
- Reparto principal
- Premios
- 5 premios en total
- Christina Delassalle
- (as Vera Clouzot)
- Le photographe
- (as Camille Guerini)
- Le garçon d'hôtel
- (as Jean Temerson)
Reseñas destacadas
"Diabolique" (1955) is a really good mystery drama. It starts as a drama and then later some of the characters must done something horrible, but the true suspense comes after something very "not according to a plan" happens.
I liked the performances in this movie. Directing and writing was also great, as well as the involving story. The ending was surprising as well.
Overall, "Diabolique" isn't a horror movie as its genre description says - its a very solid mystery drama. It has involving story and it is very well done. Good movie overall.
Like most murder mysteries, the story is highly improbable; nevertheless, the film is still hugely entertaining, thanks in part to plot twists and turns that even Agatha Christie would admire, and to the film's B&W lighting, that renders a noirish, sinister atmosphere.
The first half is interesting and tightly plotted. But the real strength of the film's underlying premise begins at the mid-point plot turn. The second half is riveting, because the tight plot begins to ooze with mystery and suspense. It builds to a final ten minutes that are as frightening as almost any ending in film history; dark interiors, shadows, ominous light at the end of a long hallway, a general absence of sound, a gloved hand, a scream, and an unexpected image. It's the very definition of spine-tingling suspense.
There is a clue to help solve the story's mystery in the film's first ten minutes; but like any good mystery, that clue is very subtle. All the film's acting is excellent, even down to the children actors. And, Simone Signoret is as wonderful here as she is in all of her other movies.
English subtitles require a little more work for viewers who cannot understand the French dialogue; yet, the story, the acting, and the cinematography should more than offset this minor irritation. Background music occurs only during the film's title sequence and closing credits; this general absence of music thus enhances suspense.
Although not strictly speaking a whodunit, "Les Diaboliques" is a classic murder mystery that has earned a well-deserved reputation for setting the standard for cinematic suspense. The story is riveting, and the film is technically well made. More recent films have tried to copy it; but this is the original.
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesAfter director Henri-Georges Clouzot bought the film rights to the original novel, he reportedly beat Alfred Hitchcock by only a matter of hours.
- PifiasWhen Christina is watching the caretaker from her class as he inspects the swimming pool, she is calling out English irregular verbs for her pupils to recite the forms. As the caretaker turns to the pool, she calls out 'turn' and then as he looks in the water, she calls out 'find'. 'Turn' is not an irregular verb.
- Citas
Plantiveau, le concierge: Watch out, ma'am. That's the deep part where you are.
Christina Delassalle: There is no danger. I can swim.
Plantiveau, le concierge: That don't mean a thing. It's always the ones who know how that get drowned. The ones who can't, don't go near the pool.
- Créditos adicionalesThe movie ends with a text screen commenting on what the viewer has witnessed, and a request not to spoil the ending for those who are planning to see the movie.
- Versiones alternativasUSA release in 1955 ran 107 minutes rather than 116 minutes.
- ConexionesFeatured in Siskel & Ebert & the Movies: What's Wrong with Home Video (1988)
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Sitios oficiales
- Idiomas
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Les diabòliques
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Château de L'Étang-la-Ville, 8 Rue de Fonton, L'Étang-la-Ville, Yvelines, Francia(doubling for the Delasalle private school)
- Empresas productoras
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Taquilla
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 12.498 US$
- Duración1 hora 57 minutos
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 1.37 : 1