Michel is referred to as a former champion swimmer, which allowed him to hold his breath long enough to make the drowning seem real. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Christina (Véra Clouzot) and Nicole (Simone Signoret), respectively the wife and mistress of the school's Jerkass headmaster Michel (Paul Meurisse), conspire to murder him. Thank you, on their behalf. [23], Originally the film was to be called Les Veuves (‘The widows’) but this was deemed unmarketable. Cette uvre fait partie de la série TREDITION CLASSICS. seemingly straight but subverted, this time for real, with Michel and Nicole's plan to kill Christina. Mia doesn't die, Nicole panics, and in the end Mia and Nicole drown Guy (the husband) in the pool, for real. He becomes involved in the case, much to Nicole's chagrin. April 1889 in Paris) war ein französischer Schriftsteller und Moralist. No_Favorite. The detective then helps them cover it up. The film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection in July 1999 and was then re-released on DVD and Blu-ray in May 2011. La maison d édition tredition, basée à Hambourg, a publié dans la série TREDITION CLASSICS des ouvrages anciens de plus de deux millénaires. Les Diaboliques (Garnier-Flammarion) (French Edition) by Barbey d'Aurevilly, Jules-Amedee and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. The six stories are highly dramatic, psychologically intense and extreme in both subject matter and style, reflecting Barbey’s unique sensibility. Unable to stand his mistreatment any longer, Nicole devises a plan to get rid of Michel forever. Les Diaboliques de Barbey D'Aurevilly - La Vengeance d'une femme (FIN) by Planèthéo 2 years ago 1 hour, 51 minutes 1,121 views Live du vendredi 07/09/2018 à 21h. Werkanalyse zu: Maupassant - "Bel Ami", Zola - "Pot-Bouille", Barbey d'Aurevilly - "Les Diaboliques" Rezension / Literaturbericht, 2009 12 Seiten. Clouzot read it through the night and optioned the rights in the morning. [5] Robert Bloch, the author of the novel Psycho, stated in an interview that his all-time favorite horror film was Les Diaboliques.[6]. Information und Bestellung in unserem Shop . Moreover, the film opens with a quote from the preface of this book. MwSt. Strangely, the boy says it was Michel who punished him. The story takes place at a run-down boys' boarding school. Roman. Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly wurde am 02.11.1808 in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte (Manche) in der Normandie geboren, er starb am 23.04.1889 in Paris. flag. Barbey d'Aurevilly, J. Christina, overcome by fear, tells Alfred everything. Author: Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly. [4] He did it by opening the film with a quote from the preface to d’Aurevilly's work: "A portrait is always moral when it is tragic and shows the horror of the things it represents. Clouzot read it through the night and optioned the rights in the morning. [14] He wasn’t particularly interested in the insurance scam that was the crime motive in the book. In 1993, another made-for-television movie remake was made; this one was titled House of Secrets, and it starred Melissa Gilbert. When his corpse floats to the surface, they think it will appear to have been an accident. Nicole sees in the paper that the police have found the corpse. Résumé: 1855. [14] The building and its surroundings matched the director’s vision perfectly since they projected the desired mood of decay and neglect. He switched … When Christina and Alfred return, a boy is punished for breaking a window. Clouzot spent five weeks shooting at this location. However, when Christina goes to the morgue, she finds it is not actually Michel's body. In the book, the action takes place between Enghien-les-Bains and Nantes but Clouzot transposed it to Saint-Cloud and Niort, his own birthplace. The adjacent swimming pool was dirty and full of slime. Video. He wasn’t particularly interested in the insurance scam that was the crime motive in the book. Michel was alive all along. Format: PDF – für PC, Kindle, Tablet, Handy (ohne DRM) Buch für nur US$ 14,99 Versand weltweit In den Warenkorb. Its consensus reads, "Cruel, dark, but undeniably effective, Diabolique is a suspense thriller as effective as Hitchcock's best work and with a brilliant twist ending."[37]. [13] He and his brother Jean (who took the pseudonym Jérôme Géronimi)[14] spent 18 months adapting the novel. EMBED. Nicole becomes worried and leaves the school. This page was last edited on 2 February 2021, at 20:51. ISBN: Category: Fiction. "[33] Reg Whiteley in the Daily Mirror described it as "a suspenseful but sordid slice of French life," and exclaimed: "Just how horrible can films get? Among them were Jean-Philippe Smet (the future Johnny Hallyday), Patrick Dewaere's brother Yves-Marie Maurin, and Georges Poujouly, who previously received acclaim in René Clément's Forbidden Games. Allongé dans une sordide mansarde du Marais, Gustave Morgan agonise, dévoré par la vérole et le remords. Some time later, the same boy who had earlier broken a window breaks another. Clouzot, after finishing The Wages of Fear, optioned the screenplay rights, preventing Alfred Hitchcock from making the film. For the 1996 version, see, "INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT BLOCH, Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier", "Histoire orale : le tournage des " Diaboliques " de Clouzot raconté par ceux qui l'ont vécu - La Cinémathèque française", "Les Diaboliques", histoire d'un tournage électrique", "The Screen: A Chiller of a Thriller; 'Diabolique,' a French Film, at Fine Arts", "Diabolique movie review & film summary (1955) | Roger Ebert", "Diabolique (Les Diaboliques) (1955) - Rotten Tomatoes", "Category List – Best Foreign film | Edgars Database", "Les Diaboliques: No 19 best horror film of all time", "BRAVO's 100 Scariest Movie Moments | The Film Spectrum", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Les_Diaboliques_(film)&oldid=1004485919, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Les Diaboliques (The Devils), also known as Diabolique, is a French suspense-thriller made in 1955 and directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, adapted from the 1951 novel Celle qui n'était plus (She Who Was No More) by Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac. Merci pour eux. Michel Serrault made his screen debut as M. Raymond, one of the schoolteachers. The film featured two Clouzot regulars: Pierre Larquey as M. Drain and Noël Roquevert as M. Herboux. There, she meets Alfred Fichet, a retired senior policeman now working as a private detective. Johnny Hallyday appears uncredited as one of the pupils. By the late 1940s Meurisse had become an established stage and screen actor, known for the roles of icy and sophisticated villains, and he seemed a natural choice for the role of Michel.[20]. [15] Susan Hayward suggests that the gender switch made by Clouzot was caused not so much by censorship considerations (in the source novel, Lucienne and Mireille turn out to be a pair of lesbian lovers) but by his desire to create a sizeable role for his wife. Ne détruisez pas l'intérêt que pourraient prendre vos amis à ce film. An illustration of an audio speaker. 5 Bücher. Michel's corpse is nowhere to be found when the pool is drained. "[24], The film created a sensation upon its original release, and was a success at the box office with 3,674,380 admissions in France alone. Page: 254. Les Diaboliques may refer to: Les Diaboliques (book), 1874 short stories collection by Jules Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly, each of which relates a tale of a woman who commits acts of violence, crime, or revenge Les Diaboliques (film), 1955 French film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, based on a novel by Boileau-Narcejac "[26], Ne soyez pas DIABOLIQUES! [17], Clouzot cast Simone Signoret in the role of Nicole. Les Diaboliques is a collection of short stories written by Barbey d’Aurevilly, first published in 1874. It is considered d'Aurevilly's masterpiece. The film was the 10th-highest grossing film of the year in France, with a total of 3,674,380 admissions. [25] The end credit contains an early example of an "anti-spoiler message. Signoret signed an eight-week contract but the shooting actually took 16 weeks. "[31], British reviews were negative on first release. Inkl. ("Don't be DIABOLICAL! He does not believe her, but he investigates the pool. Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In the last scene, a kid claims to have talked to Christina, who died from a heart attack earlier. In 1996, the film was remade again as Diabolique, adapted by Don Roos, directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik, and starring Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani in the leading female roles, with Chazz Palminteri as the husband and Kathy Bates as the detective. The final revelations are somewhat disappointing, but Clouzot doesn't linger over them. She ended up being paid for only eight weeks of work despite staying until the end of the filming because she neglected to read the small print. The director was also aware of Vera’s limitations as an actress and needed someone to lend her support in such a demanding role. It is a actually part of a perfect plan to kill Christina. Barbey d'Aurevilly war der erste Vertreter eines der satanischen Realität nachspürenden literarischen Katholizismus. After hearing this, Christina becomes very upset and is unable to join in the school photograph. Kim Newman wrote in Empire: "The horrific mystery has lost only a fraction of its power over the years, though literally dozens of films (see: Deathtrap, Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte, Games etc.) An American version of Les Diaboliques, titled Reflections of Murder, was made by ABC-TV in 1974 with Tuesday Weld, Joan Hackett, and Sam Waterston. However, Alfred hears their celebration and figures out everything, telling them they will get 15 to 20 years, depending on the judge. Almost everything goes according to their plans until the body fails to surface. Liebe Kundin, lieber Kunde, Es gibt eine gute Nachricht: Buchhandlungen in Frankreich dürfen seit 28.11. wieder Ladenverkauf machen. and then in the end Nicole joins him, with the reveal that she was in on the plot to terrify Christina into having a heart attack with the very much alive Michel all along. Publisher: Dedalus Limited. Werke u.a. Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. A second-rate boarding school in Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, in the Paris metropolitan area,[7] is run by the tyrannical and cruel Michel Delassalle. Michel and Nicole have been in cahoots all along. That night, Christina hears noises and wanders round the school. Double subverted when Alfred Fichet catches them both and arrests them. Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly was a novelist and literary critic at the Bonapartist paper Le Pays who was influential among fin-de-siècle decadents. Subverted eventually, as the ending reveals that he has been alive and working together with Nicole the whole time. Find the perfect Les Diaboliques stock photos and editorial news pictures from Getty Images. A final title screen tells the audience not to reveal the ending to others. Clouzot then was trying to sell his song lyrics to Edith Piaf, Meurisse's lover at the time. Les Diaboliques is now considered a classic of the horror genre and film in general. Michel. It was Clouzot's wife Vera who drew his attention to the Boileau-Narcejac novel. "[36], On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, Les Diaboliques holds an approval rating of 96%, based on 47 reviews, and an average rating of 8.48/10. Les Diaboliques (French pronunciation: ​ [le djaboˈlik], released as Diabolique in the United States and variously translated as The Devils or The Fiends) is a 1955 French psychological horror thriller film directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, starring Simone Signoret, … [19], Clouzot knew Paul Meurisse back from 1939 when the latter was trying to pursue a singing career. EMBED (for wordpress.com hosted blogs and archive.org item tags) Want more? Audio An illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk. Charles Vanel—who previously co-starred in Clouzot's The Wages of Fear—was cast as the seemingly inept Inspector Fichet. Barbey d'Aurevilly starb 1889 in Paris. [4] This movie helped inspire Hitchcock's Psycho. Eleven weeks into filming it was changed to Les Démoniaques. H K Hendrik Keilhauer (Autor) eBook für nur US$ 14,99 Sofort herunterladen. He and his brother Jean (who took the pseudonym Jérôme Géronimi) spent 18 months adapting the novel. Select from premium Les Diaboliques of the highest quality. have talked to Christina, who died from a heart attack earlier. The film gained additional press when, only five years after its release, Véra Clouzot died of a heart attack, aged 46, somewhat mirroring her character in the film, who also had heart problems. His work has been adapted for film most recently by Catherine Breillat (The Last Mistress) and in the fifties by Alexandre Astruc (The Crimson Curtain, also the subject of a film planned in the 1920s by Andre Breton). Nicole and Michel are plotting to drive Christina mad with fear. He added "the writing and the visual construction are superb, and the performance by top-notch French actors on the highest level of sureness and finesse. Each story features a woman who commits an act of violence, or revenge, or some other crime. have borrowed part or all of its tricky storyline. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available from thestaff@tvtropes.org. The most disturbing elements of the movie are implied, not seen. [3] The film also received the 1954 Louis Delluc Prize. Et pourtant, elles sont aussi un reve ouvert, une carte blanche qui, retournee, nous apprend que c'est a nous de saisir leur devoilement en suspens. He specialised in mystery tales that explored hidden motivation and hinted at evil without being explicitly concerned with anything supernatural. Les femmes de ces nouvelles sont impenetrables. Les Diaboliques, eBook epub (epub eBook) von Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly bei hugendubel.de als Download für Tolino, eBook-Reader, PC, Tablet und Smartphone. I guess I just did it more than most."[43]. [4] Eventually it was renamed Les Diaboliques but this title was already used for a collection of short stories by the 19th century writer Barbey d'Aurevilly. Michel rises from the tub, and Christina, who was said to have a weak heart, has a heart attack and dies. Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808–1889) is one of the most notorious of decadent writers and the subject of a major critical and popular resurgence in France.