Location: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi
Date: Fri, 2011/06/17 -5:30pm – 9:00pm
Price: Free admission.Open to all.
Category: Film screening
Duration: 110 minutes
Friday, 17 June 2011
5.30pm & 7.30pm
Les Diaboliques/ Diabolique
Director: Henri Georges Clouzot
1955-BW-110 min
The greatest film that Alfred Hitchcock never made, Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Diabolique is set in a provincial boarding school run by head master Michel Delasalle (Paul Meurisse). A ruthless lothario, he becomes the target of a murder plot concocted by his long-suffering invalid wife Christina (Vera Clouzot, the director’s own spouse) and his latest mistress, an icy teacher played by Simone Signoret. A dark, dank thriller with a much-imitated “shock” ending, Diabolique is a masterpiece of Grand Guignol suspense. The simple murder plot goes haywire, and Michel’s corpse disappears, prompting strange rumours of his reappearance which grow more and more substantial as the film careens wildly towards its breathless conclusion.