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Les Enfants Terribles (Vintage Crucial Classics)
by: Jean Cocteau

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780099455691
ISBN: 0099455692
Label: Vintage
Manufacturer: Vintage
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: August 07, 2003
Publisher: Vintage
Studio: Vintage
Sales Rank: 141471

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Let's blame Cocteau
This is a film I wish Jean-Pierre Melville never made. It's so removed from his milieu that I can't help being reminded of Alfred Hitchcock's involvement with the romantic comedy, MR AND MRS SMITH. It seems, however, that Melville wanted to do it so he has only himself to blame.

Here we are treated to a couple of overbearing teenagers orphaned early in the story -- apparently without emotional effect. Their story in the first part of the film is mostly confined to their shared bedroom in which torment each other at the top of their lungs. Some people are fascinated by this psychopathology, but it was pure hell for me.

Nicole Stéphane as the sister has been revered for her performance -- yet I found it constantly ... Read More:

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- Intriguing and disturbing novel brought to life.
Jean Cocteau's 1929 novel "les Enfants Terribles" is something something once read never forgotten. This film from 1949 with a screenplay by Cocteau who closely oversaw every aspect of the production brings the book to life Cocteau also narrates the voice over.

Siblings Elisabeth (Nicole Stephane) and Paul (Edouard Demithe) have a quasi incestuous relationship sleeping in the same bedroom, the aggressive Elisabeth constantly arguing with her brother, and sharing obsessive behaviour collecting useless "treasures" and sharing secrets.

They are later joined in this cluttered hothouse existence by Gerard (Jaques Bernard) and Agathe (Renee Cosima).

Cocteau draws us in to an unnatural but possible world of perverted ... Read More:

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- superb
Although it took me a few pages to warm to Cocteau's ocasioanlly overdone prose, there is no denying the power of this novella.

Paul and Lise play "The Game" brilliantly, and follow it to a conclusion that in less sure hands would be melodramic but stays with you after reading.

Cocteau understands the mindset of children- perhaps people in geneal- on a fundamental level and has written a superb lttle book.

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