Les Enfants Terribles
Les Enfants terribles (original)
Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau’s immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stéphane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe) close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games with the people who dare enter their lair, until romance and jealousy intrude. Melville’s operatic camera movements and Cocteau’s perverse, poetic approach to character merge in LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES to create one of French cinema’s greatest, and most surprising, meetings of the minds.
Starring Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Jacques Bernard, Jean Cocteau, Melvyn Martin, Maria Cyliakus, Jean-Marie Robain, Maurice Revel, Rachel Devirys
Watch "Les Enfants Terribles" from streaming services Criterion Channel, Kanopy released in 1950. It's a drama and romance movie, and has a rating of 7 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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