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The Cousins (1959)

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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Nate W 24 Aug 2010

Claude Chabrol's "Les Cousins" is France's answer to America's youth-in-revolt movies of the 1950's, but in keeping with the New Wave vein from whence it spawned, Chabrol's film paints a bleak and cynical view of troubled youth, rather than one of noble suffering. Most famous is the bold orgy scene, wherein the older of the two titular cousins, drunk, staggers about in a Nazi hat reciting a German poem. Chabrol's mise-en-scene is more kinetic than his French contemporaries, signifying a bit of an interesting crossover between the new European style and traditional Hollywood film making.

Michael D 01 Aug 2012

Les Cousins is one of the more emotionally accessible French New Wave films I've seen. The simple story is brilliantly laden with a state of disenchantment towards an infinitely decadent way of life engulfing the innocence, as symbolized by the relationship between the two polar opposites Paul and Charlies. The tragic ending also turns out to be quite poignant.

Carreh R 04 Oct 2014

MUBI says that Les Cousins was the first New Wave movie however it did not succeed in launching the French New Wave as did soon to follow Truffaut's "Les Quatre Cents Coups". Les Cousins is a good movie about polar opposite cousins who share an apartment in Paris.

Art S 21 Jun 2012

When one studious cousin moves from the provinces to Paris, he is treated to some late 50s bohemian decadence by the other playboy cousin (and the long party scenes are handled surprisingly well here by Claude Chabrol). This is more than a good meets evil story (although that is part of it) because there is also some desire for transference (or wish fulfillment) on the part of both cousins and the result of their sustained contact is unpredictable. As with many of the early New Wave films, there is an exuberant freshness here (even as tension and loathing mount).

Fernando F. Croce 23 Oct 2014

Reversing the setting and characters of Le Beau Serge, Claude Chabrol discovers the acerbic stylization that he would for the rest of his career polish and sharpen