Les cousins [videorecording] / Teledis présente ; une production Ajym-films ; scénario de Claude Chabrol ; dialogues de Paul Gegauff ; un film produit et réalisé par Claude Chabrol.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1959. Special features: new digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin; theatrical trailer; new and improved English subtitle translation; booklet featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty, and excerpts about costar Gérard Blain from actor Jean-Claude Brialy's memoir. Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Stéphane Audran, Guy Decomble, Genevieve Cluny.
Summary:
Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a piercing, darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le Beau Serge, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles.
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