Edouard Dermithe, Jacques Bernard, Maria Cyliakus
After teenager Paul (Edouard Dermithe) is injured in a schoolyard fight and ordered to bed rest, his doting sister, Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane), assumes the lead role in his care. But when Elisab...( read more
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DVD Release Date: July 24, 2007
Stats: 75 reviews
far from being one of melvilles better films, the film suffers from intolerable characters and a dull and pointless story through 3/4 of the film. thankfully melville did a lot with a little, redeeming the otherwise dull story with an interesting and tragic final act. the techn...( read more)
Les Enfants Terribles was my first Cocteau film, soon (I hope) to be followed by Orphe. Though not technically a Cocteau film in its entirety, as it was directed by Melville, it is said that the influence Cocteau exerted over the film was not limited to mere script writing or nar...( read more)
It is one of the best movie adaptations of a book I've seen. It is also one of my favorite children's tales. Oh, and the book was written by Jean Cocteau, that should be enough of a reason to watch it.
Je sais pas pourquoi, ce film m'attirait depuis longtemps, mais je n'avais jamais pris la peine de le louer. C'était peut-être aussi bien comme ça, parce que j'ai été immensément déçu. C'est du Melville, c'est du Cocteau, on sait plus trop. Mais c'est plutôt du Cocteau. En fait ç...( read more)
Macabre is one way to describe this, a macabre masterpiece that strikes as one of the most beautiful movies on relationships, its obsesive and destructive nature. The way a dominant and subdued individual just slide and crash head-on. I loved this movie a lot, it brought out the ...( read more)
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