Les cousins
In Les cousins, Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le beau Serge, Chabrol’s debut, Les cousins recasts that film’s stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles. This dagger-sharp drama won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and was an important early entry in the French New Wave.
Special Features
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty and excerpts from actor Jean-Claude Brialy’s memoir, about costar Gérard Blain
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Special Features
- New digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A new essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty and excerpts from actor Jean-Claude Brialy’s memoir, about costar Gérard Blain
New cover by F. Ron Miller
Cast
- Gérard Blain
- Charles
- Jean-Claude Brialy
- Paul
- Juliette Mayniel
- Florence
- Guy Decomble
- Bookseller
- Geneviève Cluny
- Geneviève
- Michèle Méritz
- Yvonne
- Corrado Guarducci
- Count Arcangelo Minerva
- Stéphane Audran
- Françoise
- Paul Bisciglia
- Marc
- Jeanne Pérez
- Concierge
- Françoise Vatel
- Martine
- Claude Cerval
- Clovis
Credits
- Director
- Claude Chabrol
- Producer
- Claude Chabrol
- Photography
- Henri Decaë
- Screenplay
- Claude Chabrol
- Dialogue
- Paul Gégauff
- Sound
- Jean-Claude Marchetti
- Music
- Paul Misraki
- Editing
- Jacques Gaillard
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