Terrence Rafferty Professions : Film critic Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Terrence Rafferty What you discover on your own is always more exciting than what someone else discovers for you - it's like the marriage between romantic love and an arranged marriage. Terrence Rafferty finding-yourself romantic-love knowledge Henri-Georges Clouzot's cool, clammy, twisty 1955 thriller Diabolique is an almost perfect movie about a very nearly perfect murder, a film in which the artist's methods and the killers' are ideally matched, equal in cunning and in ruthlessness. The screenplay, adapted by Clouzot and three other writers from a novel by the crack French crime-fiction team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac, is a fantastically elaborate piece of contrivance, but the scrupulous realism of the direction makes the unnatural tale somehow feel entirely likely. Terrence Rafferty almost-perfect team artist Similar Authors Andre Bazin film-critic Andrew Sarris film-critic Armond White film-critic Bob Mondello film-critic Drew McWeeny film-critic David Edelstein film-critic All Authors
