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 | ||
| 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:
The 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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Paul Thomas: I don't blame them.
Italian Count Minerva: Please forgive us. Your lovely city is to blame. Good-bye, madam.
La femme de ménage: A proper gentleman. A foreigner?
Paul Thomas: Yes, Italian. But not as proper as you think.
La femme de ménage: Good Lord, look at this! Were you fighting?
Paul Thomas: This is Babylon, madam.
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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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Two ends were filmed, one optimistic (the reconciliation between the two cousins, which was discarded, and the other pessimistic (which was finally chosen). See more »Quotes
La femme de ménage: [Arriving the morning after the party] Goodness me! You made a racket last night! The fifth floor wasn't happy.Paul Thomas: I don't blame them.
Italian Count Minerva: Please forgive us. Your lovely city is to blame. Good-bye, madam.
La femme de ménage: A proper gentleman. A foreigner?
Paul Thomas: Yes, Italian. But not as proper as you think.
La femme de ménage: Good Lord, look at this! Were you fighting?
Paul Thomas: This is Babylon, madam.
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Le Crépuscule des Deux (Mort de Siegfried)Music by Richard Wagner
Performed by Orchestre de la Société du Conservatoire
Conducted by Carl Schuricht
Disque DECCA
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Chabrol's second feature. I haven't seen his first, Le beau Serge, but this is the most French New Wave film I've seen from Chabrol. As such, it's by far my favorite. I like several of his films, but I do find even my favorites a little dry. This one is just gorgeous and it's quite a lot of fun throughout. Gerard Blain plays a provincial who is moving to Paris to go to college. He moves in with his cousin (Jean-Claude Brialy), who is himself a student. Brialy is a total party animal, spending all his free time drinking with friends and none of it studying. The two get along at first, but then a woman (Juliette Mayniel) comes between them. The film is kind of a precursor to Jules et Jim.