Diabolique . Tucson Weekly . 03-28-96

Diabolique

DIRECTED BY: Jeremiah Chechik

REVIEWED: 03-28-96

A remake of Georges Clouzot's classic, boring thriller of 1955 about a wife and mistress who plot to kill the man they share. With Sharon Stone in the role of the mistress it has been updated into that thoroughly modern genre, the psychosexual thriller. Unfortunately, not much else has changed from the 1955 version. The women seem to be wearing the same clothes, the boys boarding school where they teach is as gothic as ever, and Isabelle Adjani, as the abused wife of Chazz Palminteri, still doesn't seem to have heard of divorce. Come on ladies, get empowered! Kathy Bates does turn in a refreshing performance as the grizzled old police detective though.

--Stacey Richter

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