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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.
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
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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- Drama
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- 1952-07-28
Les Enfants terribles est un film français, adapté par Jean Cocteau d'après son roman, et réalisé par Jean-Pierre Melville, sorti en 1950.
A love story by Jean Cocteau. Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making.
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- Melville Productions
- Jean-Pierre Melville
Jul 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 unforgettable performance), his ...
Tale of the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister, Elisabeth and Paul, who close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites Agathe to stay with them.
