Les Cousins
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Time Out says
The town mouse and his country cousin. Or, the story of two students, one who was very, very good, and one who was very, very bad; but the bad one passed his exams, got the girl (when he wanted her), and survived to live profitably ever after. A fine, richly detailed tableau of student life in Paris, and Chabrol's first statement (in his second film) of his sardonic view of life as a matter of the survival of the fittest. The centrepiece, as so often in the early days of the nouvelle vague, is an orgiastic party climaxed, as the guest sleeps it off next morning, by a sublimely cruel and characteristic 'joke' by the bad cousin (Brialy) when he performs an eerie Wagnerian charade with candelabra and Gestapo cap to wake a Jewish student into nightmare.Author: TM
Release details
UK release:
1959
Duration:
103 mins
Cast and crew
Director:
Cast:
Corrado Guarducci, Guy Decomble, Claude Cerval, Juliette Mayniel, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gérard Blain, Stéphane Audran
Music:
Art Director:
Bernard Evein, Jacques Saulnier
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