Diabolique

Diabolique (1996)

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

Data lansării
1996-03-22
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (334)
Durată
1 h 47 min
Genuri
Mister, Thriller, Horror
Regizor
Jeremiah S. Chechik

Distribuție

Curiozități

  • Bazat pe: She Who Was No More și Diabolicele
  • Filmat în: Pittsburgh

Diabolique is a 1996 American psychological thriller film directed by Jeremiah Chechik, starring Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, and Kathy Bates. The plot follows the wife and mistress of an abusive schoolmaster who find themselves stalked by an unknown assailant after murdering the schoolmaster and disposing of his body.

Production

Producer Marvin Worth spent about three and a half years developing and casting. Chechik said he and screenwriter Don Roos worked on the script for about a year, shifting the story toward the two women's perspective.

Chechik called Sharon Stone from a Warner Bros. meeting to offer her the role, then flying to Paris to approach Isabelle Adjani. Stone had been sending him projects before Diabolique and accepted the role of Nicole as soon as he offered it. In a May 1996 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle, Stone, who was happy with the film, said she had approached it as a campy black comedy and that she and Chechik had different ideas about its tone.

Filming took place in and around Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The former St. Philomena School in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood served as the boarding school. Pittsburgh Film Office director Dawn Keezer said that the crew covered nearby houses with camouflage netting to make the school appear isolated. Other filming locations included Harmony and Uniontown, Pennsylvania.

Chechik proposed shooting at an American school in Morocco in bright daylight. The studio wanted a film noir look. He and cinematographer Peter James used stronger light for Stone and softer light for Adjani, which made their shared scenes technically difficult to shoot. Pampa News reported that Palminteri was due to finish filming his scenes in Diabolique the weekend of October 13, 1995.

Henri-Georges Clouzot’s widow, Inès, sued Morgan Creek over the film rights. Time covered the dispute before release, and The History of French Literature on Film records that she received 750,000 French francs in compensation.

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