Tag: 1950’s

• DIABOLIQUE (1955) at 70: Queer-coded Anxiety & Heteronormative Deception

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  by ‘K’ In 1955, a queer-coded thriller pierced the French cinema landscape, appearing in the horizon as a tower of layered anxieties and deceit. Tensions of different kinds vertically stack up like bricks: conspiratorial, romantic, psychosexual. Some anxieties boil over a dead body that can’t be found, and others burn between living bodies that never…