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In a small country town Christina Delassalle owns and runs a school for boys with her husband Michel. Christina does her best to run the school but she faces both physical and emotional struggles. Christina is a frail lady with a very weak heart and to add to this burden her husband is a very dominant cruel man who has a mistress Nicole Horner who also teaches in the school. Nicole is the total opposite of Christina Nicole is a very strong women who knows what she wants and is not afraid to go and get it while Christina is quite and obedient. Despite her strong demeanor Nicole is experiencing the same abuse both mental and physical from her lover Michel. Everyone at the school both students and staff alike both hate and fear Michel.
Nicole finally realises she has enough when Michel gives her a black in an argument and has to suffer the embarrassment of having to hide behind dark sunglasses in class. Christina and Nicole get together to devise a plan red themselves of the man they both love and hate in equal measure. They find a window of opportunity when the school will be close for a weekend holiday.
Both woman leave town and head to a house owned by Nicole where they plan to lure Michel and dispose of him once and for all. Christina lures Michel to the house by demanding a divorce which Michel is not willing to allow happen knowing that we will loose everything because Christina is the one that has all the money that keeps him in the luxury he has become accustomed too. Once Michel arrives the plan is put into action when his wife tricks him into drinking some poisoned whiskey. Once he is out cold the women carry him to a bath and drown him. They then transport him back to the school where they dump him in the dirty school pool hoping to make his death look like an accident. When a few days pass the woman decide to drain the pool but when the pool is empty Michels body is nowhere to be found. Who could of taken the body ad where could it be now? Was Michel even dead to start with.
Les Diaboliques is a fantastic tense film. The acting is great from everyone involved. Each character makes you feel different about their situation. Firstly there is Christina who you cannot but feel sorry for her and her struggles. She is finding life very hard and constantly has to rest and recover from the smallest amount of stress mainly caused by her husband and his constant torture he inflicts on her. Then there is Nicole who demands your respect and admiration for her strength. Finally we have Michel a horrible man who thrives and the fears and weaknesses of those around him you really come to hate this man right from the get go. The mystery of the missing body had me glued to the screen right until the end and the pay off is fantastic the final scenes really get under your skin.
9/10