Jean-Pierre Melvilles Les Enfants Terribles (1950), adapted by Jean Cocteau from his own novel, is a haunting study of obsession, isolation, and emotional dependency between a brother and sister. Blending poetic realism with psychological tension, it stands as one of French cinemas most mesmerizing Psychological Dramas, steeped in dreamlike imagery and fatal intimacy.

In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, a teenage brother and sister, Paul and Elisabeth, create an intense, private world in their untidy shared single room. Within the room, they live, sleep, argue and play out their erotically charged games without heed to the real world going on around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their intensely private realm, the scene is set for tragedy.
A hauntingly atmospheric adaptation of Jean Cocteaus 1929 claustrophobic hothouse novel, for which he also wrote the screenplay and provided the voice-over, the film is dominated by a performance of fierce intensity by Nicole Stéphane as the scheming heroine Elisabeth

Les Enfants terribles brought two very different film-makers together for the first time the mercurial, multi-talented Jean Cocteau and the single-minded, self-sufficient Jean-Pierre Melville. Despite clashing with one another, what emerged is a unique film that is as true to Cocteaus vision as to Melvilles.

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The dangerously obsessive relationship between a psychologically manipulative brother and sister who isolate themselves and draw others into their mind games.

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Version: : Blu-Ray (import)

Språk : French

EAN : 5035673014417

Distributor : British Film Institute

Inspelningsår : 1950

imdb-rating : 6.9

Längd : 1h 45m