Ep. 110 Les Diaboliques

“The chaste woman loves to contemplate dawn.” Hosts John Cribbs and
Christopher Funderburg sit down to discuss Henri-Georges Clouzot’s
masterpiece of suspense, Les Diaboliques. The film follows a pair
of abused women seeking revenge on their tormentor as it builds to
one of cinema’s greatest (and most diabolical) twist endings. The
conversation covers Clouzot’s controversial past and working
methods, why the comparisons to Hitchcock are reductive, the
artistic influence of his wife Vera, why Clouzot’s Le Corbeau made
both furious the Nazis and French resistance furious, and the
balance of power between Clouzot’s twins masterpieces Diaboliques
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twitter.com/TheLastMachine Intro music: Unleash the Bastards / “Tea
for Two” Outro music: Marcus Pinn / “Vegas"