Les Enfants Terribles: Criterion Collection
by Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Melville
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Actor: Edouard Dermithe, Jacques Bernard, Melvyn Martin, Nicole St?phane, Ren?e CosimaDirector: Jean Cocteau, Jean-Pierre Melville
Brand: Image Entertainment
Writer: Jean Cocteau
Cinematographer: Henri Deca?
Producer: Jean-Pierre Melville
Writer: Jean-Pierre Melville
Editor: Monique Bonnot
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-07-24
Studio: Arthur Mayer-Edward Kingsley Inc.
Movie Reviews of Les Enfants Terribles: Criterion Collection
Movie Review: A bore!
Summary: 1 Stars
Compare to JP Melville's later gangster movies, this is a god damn bore. Can't wait for it to end. A hinted incest relationship between the sister and the brother referred as "playing games" perhaps? Don't get excited weirdos,
there is no nudity in this film.
Glad the dvd player has a fast forward button, I used 34X to scan the disc to the end. The boy died for some reason and the girl shot herself. Terrible movie. Well transferred to DVD by Criterion - that's why I gave it one star. Maybe this movie is good for some idiot academics, but not for me.
Summary of Les Enfants Terribles: Criterion Collection
Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 07/24/2007Jean-Pierre Melville's second film, made in 1950, became a significant influence among French filmmakers and earned Melville renown as a maverick who could do wonderful things outside his country's studio system. (Melville's independence was a forerunner of that enjoyed later in the decade by New Wave figures such as Fran?ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.) Les Enfants Terribles is based on a 1929 novel by poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, who also wrote the script with Melville and according to some people interfered in everything from the casting (the rather stiff male lead was a Cocteau protege) to the photography. Nevertheless, the story of a sister (an outstanding performance by Nicole Stephane) and brother (Edouard Dhermite) who withdraw into their own, insulated world to play out suggestively erotic dramas, has a fluid, lyrical movement that is part of a visionary whole. In some ways a harbinger of the coming pop narcissism of youth culture, Les Enfants Terribles is also a timeless tale of mythic exploration of existence and purpose. --Tom Keogh
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