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Les Parents terribles is a 1938 French play written by Jean Cocteau. Despite initial problems with censorship, it was revived on the French stage several times after its original production, and in 1948 a film adaptation directed by Cocteau was released.
- Jean Cocteau
- 1938
Les Parents terribles is a 1948 film adaptation directed by Jean Cocteau from his own stage play Les Parents terribles. Cocteau used the same cast who had appeared in a successful stage revival of the play in Paris in 1946. The film has sometimes been known by the English title The Storm Within.
The Terrible Parents: Directed by Jean Cocteau. With Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray, Marcel André. Michel is in love with Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her.
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- Drama
- Jean Cocteau
- 1950-04-22
May 24, 2018 · “Parents,” which sometimes goes by the English-language title “The Storm Within,” makes its U.S. premiere in New York this week in a fine-looking restoration. Cocteau adapted this film ...
- Jean Cocteau
- Glenn Kenny
- 105 min
Jul 26, 2020 · Les Parents terribles begins with hand-drawn animation of a theatre curtain rising to reveal not a stage, or even a wide shot, but a jarring close-up of the bizarre Georges (Marcel André) in a scuba mask, aiming his sub-machine gun at something, or someone, out of frame.
- Donovan Renn
Jul 12, 2018 · “Les Parents Terribles,” however — also known as “The Storm Within” — is quite hermetic, never straying from its two claustrophobic interiors, mostly filmed in close-ups and medium ...
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Adapted from his infamous, once-banned 1938 play, Jean Cocteau’s unsung masterwork fuses farce, social satire, and tragedy to paint a perverse picture of familial dysfunction. Reprising his stage role, muse Jean Marais cuts an indelible figure as a young man wilting under maternal possessiveness. Trailer.
