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Les Cousins (The Cousins) is a 1959 French film directed by Claude Chabrol, starring Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, and Stéphane Audran. Charles (Blain) moves into his cousin's flat in Paris. His cousin, …
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A mirror image of Le beau Serge, Chabrol’s debut, Les cousins recasts that film’s stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles. This dagger-sharp drama won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and was an important early entry in the French New Wave.
The story of Les Cousins revolves around two young men who are cousins and are university students in Paris. Charles is from a small French town and has been sent by his mother to live with his cousin, Paul, who has an apartment in the big city. Although the two of them immediately get on together, they couldn’t be more different. Charles is direct, sincere, guileless, and rather naive. Paul is a sophisticated poseur, unwilling to accept any responsibility and ready to adopt whatever role ...
Les Cousins Dangereux. Runtime 1h 30m. To escape the scorn of their dissaproving families, two cousins flee to a sleepy, provincial town in France but are forced to hide their incestuous affair from the prying eyes of local villagers in this awkward tale of forbidden romance.
Les cousins. Directed by: Claude Chabrol. Starring: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy. Genres: Nouvelle Vague, Drama. Rated the #34 best film of 1959, and #2945 in the greatest all-time movies (according to RYM users).
