The Cousins
Drama
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1959
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Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
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Details
Runtime:
112 min
Release date:
11 Mar 1959
Country:
FR
Languages:
French, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
The director tackles his great theme-the puncturing of bourgeois moralism, albeit at a price-with a joyful, quasi-Nietzschean derision.
– Richard Brody,
New Yorker,
13 May 2013
fresh:
Concise progression, fine technical aspects, and the look at innocence destroyed by the profane keeps it absorbing, despite the slightly pretentious treatment at times.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
fresh:
A fine, richly detailed tableau of student life in Paris, and Chabrol's first statement (in his second film) of his sardonic view of life as a matter of the survival of the fittest.
– Tom Milne,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
fresh:
M. Chabrol has more skill with the camera than he has with the pen, and his picture is more credible to the eye than it is to the skeptical mind. But it is not the less overwhelming.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
20 May 2003
fresh:
This is Chabrol's second film, and its subtle development of character points toward the dense structures of his later films with their reluctance either to condemn or extol without reservation.
– Don Druker,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000