Les Diaboliques (1955)

Time for my first French film!

Does it have subtitles?

gs78 wrote:

Does it have subtitles?

You can turn them on if you want but don't have to. Seeing as I only know a few phrases in French I'll use the subtitles.

Cool!

Review time:

This movie was quite good. It felt like a Hitchcock film which makes sense as there were rumors that the book this was based on was actually written for Hitchcock. Rumors also stated that Hitchcock missed out on purchasing the rights to this film by just a few hours. Whether these rumors are true is irrelevant to this review.

As for the plot, I will not, no I CANNOT say anything about it - the movie told me so. The only thing I'll say is after the movie was over and the word FIN was shown there was a message imploring the audience not to reveal what they had seen. I will not say anything. With that said, the plot was very good and got better as it went. Then there was the ending of the movie...WOW!

Spoiler:

For the acting, it was quite good. I'm not an expert on acting and have difficulty recognizing the difference between good and great acting, but this was at least good. The main actors all come off as believable and there were no cringe-worthy moments.

I'm not sure this movie addressed any major themes, but who cares? It was quite entertaining. Also, this film fits the psychological thriller genre so I'm sure there's some sort of psychological essay that could be written on this film.

As for the content, the plot is dark and it does swear a couple times. It could probably get away with being PG but I'm going to rate it PG-13 just to be on the safe side.

93/100
A-

UP NEXT: Let's watch Bogart and Bacall in Dark Passage.

What is it with you and old movies?

gdennis59 wrote:

What is it with you and old movies?

I like them.

catbox_9 wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

What is it with you and old movies?

I like them.

I really dont see how. Todays movies are more funny, easier to understand, and they dont put me to sleep! I mean, I watch a few of the older movies, (The Goonies, Rambo) Stuff like that.

gdennis59 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

What is it with you and old movies?

I like them.

I really dont see how. Todays movies are more funny, easier to understand, and they dont put me to sleep! I mean, I watch a few of the older movies, (The Goonies, Rambo) Stuff like that.

I would hardly consider those movies old as they were made in the 1980s. If you look at the movies I've watched very few of them are post-1960. The movies I have watched have not been comedies so I don't expect them to be funny. As long as I'm not doing other things at the same time I watch them I don't find them all that difficult to understand and they do keep me awake. Yes, some of them can be complicated to understand, but there are plenty of modern movies that have complex plots as well.

Go find a modern movie that is praised by critics, it will have a complex enough plot to where a drunk person who is text messaging their friends throughout will probably end up very confused.

Uhhh, American History X?

What about it? It's from 1998. I haven't seen it so I can't offer any commentary.

gdennis59 wrote:

Uhhh, American History X?

Now THAT is a good movie

SoulRat wrote:

gdennis59 wrote:

Uhhh, American History X?

Now THAT is a good movie

So is Les Diaboliques! This poor thread. One of my movie threads finally gets lots of replies but none of them have anything to do with the movie

Doesn't anybody watch the same movies as me other than ScubaTheHooD and lap?

catbox_9 wrote:

Doesn't anybody watch the same movies as me other than ScubaTheHooD and lap?

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

Doesn't anybody watch the same movies as me other than ScubaTheHooD and lap?

Hey, you watched a couple of them (The Maltese Falcon, Angels With Dirty Faces, etc.)

catbox_9 wrote:

bobrob2004 wrote:

catbox_9 wrote:

Doesn't anybody watch the same movies as me other than ScubaTheHooD and lap?

Hey, you watched a couple of them (The Maltese Falcon, Angels With Dirty Faces, etc.)

Yeah, but I told you to watch Angels With Dirty Faces and the only reason I saw The Malese Falcon is because it was conveniently on TCM. I don't get hyped about watching foreign movies, although they might be very good.

bobrob2004 wrote:

. I don't get hyped about watching foreign movies, although they might be very good.

Might? They are very good. Well it's like American movies. There's tons of garbage, but if you stick to the good stuff you'll be fine.

If you get the DVD of Bicycle Thieves you can watch it dubbed in English. I went the subtitle route but that film was actually dubbed in Italian, too. It, like Das Boot (German) was originally shot to where there was no audible dialogue and the dialogue was dubbed in.

Das Boot is a very good movie but sickening

SoulRat wrote:

Das Boot is a very good movie but sickening

HA! You admit it! You watch foreign films!

catbox_9 wrote:

SoulRat wrote:

Das Boot is a very good movie but sickening

HA! You admit it! You watch foreign films!

I would have never watched that movie if it weren't for my husband. And that movie makes me ill.

Les Diaboliques won't make you ill!

catbox_9 wrote:

Les Diaboliques won't make you ill!

I'm not discussing that movie.

Das Boot. I don't understand the passion some people have for war films. Isn't it bad enough that shit really happened? Why would I want to watch it? I don't get it

Not a big war film fan myself. The problem is you know how it's going to end.

If I watch say The Patriot and the British win, that's a terrible movie because that's not what happened. If the US wins, it's still bad because I already knew they won.

I have this argument with my husband on a fairly regular basis. He LOVES war flicks and his reasoning is "This really happened! It's much better than the stupid zombie flicks you watch" To which I say, "This actually happened and it's sickening! I would rather watch zombies eating people than soldiers dying!"

We rarely watch movies together

There's no war in Les Diaboliques

But it's subtitled yes?

Well, you don't have to use subtitles if you don't like them. Of course that would require knowledge of French.

Boo. I hate reading movies.

It's not that bad though, really! Give it a try!

Maybe. Not tonight It's Miller time And I don't have any damn dvds