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Les Cousins is a 1959 French New Wave drama film directed by Claude Chabrol. It tells a story about two cousins, the decadent Paul, played by Jean-Claude Brialy, and the naïve Charles, played by Gérard Blain. The film won the Golden Bear at the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.
The Cousins: Directed by Claude Chabrol. With Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble. A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
In Les cousins, 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 darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world.
Feb 22, 2013 · A gripping and urbane examination of city and country, ambition and ease, Les Cousins continues to captivate and shock audiences with its brilliant scenario, the performances of Brialy and...
The relationship between two cousins with different personalities is challenged when one falls in love with the other's friend.
In Le Beau Serge, a confident city boy (an unusually sympathetic Jean-Claude Brialy) returns to his backwater home town in the provinces to come to the aid of a long-lost childhood friend (Gérard Blain, harrowingly convincing as a dipsomaniac depressive), ruining his health in the process.
Mar 28, 2019 · In Les cousins’ experimental fable of moral ambiguity, tainted with irony and death, one can see Chabrol developing his fascination with emotionally crippled characters caught up in murder – no wonder that he would soon be dubbed “The French Hitchcock.”
