A pair of cousins share a flat, but animosity begins to build between the two when a woman gets involved.
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| Gérard Blain | ... | Charles | |
| Jean-Claude Brialy | ... | Paul Thomas | |
| Juliette Mayniel | ... | Florence | |
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Guy Decomble | ... | Le libraire |
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Geneviève Cluny | ... | Geneviève |
| Michèle Méritz | ... | Yvonne | |
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Corrado Guarducci | ... | Italian Count Minerva |
| Stéphane Audran | ... | Françoise | |
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Paul Bisciglia | ... | Marc |
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Jeanne Pérez | ... | La femme de ménage |
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Françoise Vatel | ... | Martine |
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André Chanal | ||
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Gilbert Edard | ||
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Clara Gansard | ||
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Jean-Louis Maury | ... | Un étudiant joueur de bridge |
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Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films. Written by Yepok
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Country:
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23 November 1959 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Les Cousins See more »Filming Locations:
Studios de Boulogne-Billancourt/SFP - 2 Rue de Silly, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France See more »Edit
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Music by Richard Wagner
Performed by Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire
Conducted by Carl Schuricht
Disque DECCA
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Le Crépuscule des Deux (Mort de Siegfried)Music by Richard Wagner
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The 13th film I saw of Claude Chabrol. The least I liked. I understand the meaning and the message of the film, but practically nothing captivated me: Neither the characters (nor Charles's own character captivated me) nor the rhythm of the film (a very long sequence in which we get to know Paul's friends, who swim and the way the "bourgeoisie" is presented to us, there are immense films that "capture" this social class in a much more skilful and humorous way, nor the message of the film, which I find to be inadequate and unlikely in the form how it is performed. I liked Chabrol's film the previous year, his first one, "le beau serge", curiously with the same double protagonist. I can not give this "les cousins" more than 6/10.