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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.
- Claude Chabrol
- Paul Misraki
The Cousins. Reserved, bourgeois college student Charles (Gérard Blain) comes to stay with his devil-may-care cousin, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy), who lives the fast life in Paris. Sensitive ...
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- Gérard Blain
- Claude Chabrol
- Ajym Films
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.
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- Drama
- Claude Chabrol
- 1959-03-11
Jacques Gaillard. 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.
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Film Details. Also Known As. Cousins, The, I cugini, Los primos. Genre. Drama. Foreign. Release Date. 1959. Technical Specs. Duration. 1h 52m. Sound. Mono. Color. Black and White. The relationship between two cousins with different personalities is challenged when one falls in love with the other's friend.
- Claude Chabrol
- Jean-Claude Brialy
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Sep 19, 2011 · The stories are mirror images of each other: Le beau Serge is about a young man from the city (Jean-Claude Brialy) visiting a friend (Gérard Blain) in the country, Les cousins about a student from the country (Blain) coming to stay with his cousin (Brialy) in Paris, and in each, the new environment proves too much for the luckless visitor.
Overview. Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift. Claude Chabrol.
