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Les Enfants terribles (literal English translation: The Terrible Children; English title: The Strange Ones) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with a screenplay adapted by Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel of the same name about the tangled relationship of a close brother and sister.
The Terrible Children: Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. With Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Jacques Bernard. The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.
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- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1952-07-28
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.
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Jul 18, 2007 · A key influence on the French New Wave, Les Enfants Terribles is a film that is difficult to classify, just as it is tricky to untangle the primal thicket of Jean Cocteau’s classic story of incest between Paul (Edouard Dermithe), a passive-aggressive, pretty boy, and Elizabeth (Nicole Stephane, in an unforgettable performance), his off ...
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. Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville • 1950 • France Starring Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe Writer Jean Cocteau and director ...
A brother and sister close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games with the people who dare enter their lair.
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