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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.
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- March 29, 1950 (Paris)
- O.G.C.
Edit page. 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
- Not Rated
Synopsis. Après la mort de leur mère, Élisabeth ( Nicole Stéphane) et Paul ( Édouard Dermit ), frère et sœur orphelins livrés à eux-mêmes et liés par une affection exclusive, vivent ensemble dans leur grand appartement parisien. Ils se sont construit un univers chimérique régi par de sibyllins symboles.
- Melville Productions
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Les Enfants terribles
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Les enfants terribles. Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau’s immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stéphane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe) close themselves off from the world by ...
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Jul 18, 2007 · by Dan Callahan. July 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 ...
Synopsis. Elisabeth is very protective of her teenage brother Paul, who is injured in a snowball fight at school and has to rest in bed most of the time. The siblings are inseparable, living in the same room, fighting, playing secret games, and rarely leaving the house; though Paul's friend Gerard often stays with them.
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Nicole Stephane
Les Enfants terribles est un film réalisé par Jean-Pierre Melville avec Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe. Synopsis : Apres la mort de leur mere, un frere et une soeur vivent dans la chambre ...