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Reviews Counted:8
Fresh:6
Rotten:2
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Cinema giants Jean-Pierre Melville (THE WAGES OF FEAR) and Jean Cocteau (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) collaborated to create LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES, a stunning portrait of surreal perversion and narcissism... [More]
Starring: Edouard Dermithe, Jean Cocteau, Nicole Stephane
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Unfortunately, the film's more poetic visual tendencies are frequently undermined by the unnecessary narration written and performed by Cocteau himself, which informs us of emotions and psychological states that are mostly evident on-screen.
One must admire the talents of Melville and Cocteau while watching the film, but the strongest emotions are arch and the biggest plot turns are silly.
The tension is between heightened whimsy and its vérité settings, or, more specifically, between Jean Cocteau's writing (an adaptation of his 1929 novel) and Jean-Pierre Melville's direction.
The film also unmistakably bears Cocteau's stamp, and he even directed one scene (at the beach) when Melville fell ill.
Jean Cocteau has written the pic and delivers the commentary, which creates a gripping, dream-like attraction.
Top CriticA fascinating collaboration between two of French cinema's great talents which, in its strange atmosphere, poetic dialogue and creepy tone, has lost none of its ability to shock or compel.
French cinema legends Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean Cocteau collaborated to cast a hypnotic spell.
Les Enfants Terribles is very much a fantasy, an accumulation of suggestive, slightly obscure visual details, offset somewhat by Cocteau's too-literary, over-explicit narration.
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