Les Diaboliques (1955)
French/France
Duration 1h 57m
Christina Delassalle suffers greatly at the hands of her brutish husband Michel. She inherited the boys' boarding school they run but it's clearly Michel who is in charge. She and Nicole Horner, one of the teachers and Michel's former lover, decide to kill him. Christina, who has a serious condition, is terrified when, by chance, she meets a retired police inspector who decides to look into the case.
This International Cinema event is Classroom Dress and FREE.
The International Cinema is designed to meet the following objectives:
- To supplement the curriculum of foreign language classes by providing opportunities both to hear native speakers of such languages and to experience the art and culture of the countries in which those languages are spoken.
- To supplement the curriculum for English and humanities classes by showing important classic and quality films from the canon of world cinema, as well as cinematic adaptations of great English literature.
- To provide opportunities for the BYU Idaho campus community to broaden its worldview through a deeper understanding and appreciation of other cultures and people.