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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23 November 1959 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Studios de Boulogne-Billancourt/SFP - 2 Rue de Silly, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France See more »Edit
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Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as W.A. Mozart)
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra (as Orchestre Symphonique de Londres)
Conducted by Josef Krips (as Joseph Krips)
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Jean Dalbecque dit Clovis: You're being an idiot! This drives me nuts! You poor little fool! You've slept with everyone. Now you fall for a virgin and start thinking you're one too! Even from a moral point of view, it offends me. Be true to yourself. You're taking this boy for a ride, passing yourself off as something you're not. So sleep with him or leave him alone!See more »
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40e Symphonie en Sol Majeur (Koechel 550) 1er movementMusic by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (as W.A. Mozart)
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Chabrol's second film, made months after his first Le Beau Serge, and a more mature film director is evident. Helped, no doubt by those he gathered around him notably on script and camera, while the first film had charm and passion, this has that and more. Not only is this an interesting and intriguing tale of student life and affairs late 50s, the way it is shot opens up a whole new world of cinema. At least for the next five years this new Wave would dominate French cinema and also influence most of the world's cinema. With a fluid camera movement, jump cuts and an emphasis on 'real' people, having fun, being serious about politics, smoking all the time and having sex, cinema would, as they say never be the same again. Les Cousins is all of the above and entertains and amuses. Chabrol has complete control of the music this time, which works very well - even if it includes youngsters dancing around to Wagner! Important and enjoyable - can't say fair than that.