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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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Daniel K 17 Jul 2012

3: I feel like one has to have seen Le beau Serge in order for this to be as effective. It also helps if one has a familiarity with the Nouvelle Vague. The performances are top notch and the conclusion is powerful, but like most New Wave films I've seen lately it didn't inspire me. It's like I've move on since I was so enamored of these kinds of films back in college. It's still an interesting morality tale and perhaps most importantly seems to ring quite true. I'm not a huge Chabrol fan by any stretch, but he is definitely a filmmaker any cineaste should be at least passingly familiar with. Naturally, this is the kind of picture that could lead to a rich cafe-based discussion after seeing it.

Stefanos T 30 Dec 2011

Claude Chabrol's second film recasts the two leading men from Le Beau Serge and reverses their roles of protagonist and antagonist. They were friends in the first film, now they are cousins. The characters are good, and the story is alright, but this one lacks the emotion that the first film was fuelled by. An okay film.

Pablo Villaça 24 Jul 2003

Um dos filmes seminais da nouvelle vague, aborda com inteligência as diferenças de caráter e de postura diante da vida de dois primos: um inseguro e introspectivo, e outro sedutor e confiante. Boas atuações e direção segura de Chabrol.

Matthew S 27 Jul 2015

Claude Chabrol's deceptively simple story of two very different cousins is not so powerful because of the plot -- which packs a feeling of Hitchcock in the most passive of ways. The power of this film is the artistic manner in which we see (and feel) the film unfold. There is always a bit of debate regarding if this or Truffaut actually made the first of La Nouvelle Vague films. In the end, that doesn't matter. At it's time, no one had seen a move this realistic and oddly provocative. It still carries an odd sense of "new-ness" about it. The clash of a country mouse and his hipster cousin is as much a societal critique as it is an aggressive bit of dark humor manipulation of cinema. There will only ever be one Claude Chabrol. This may not be his finest film, but it manages to capture almost all of the elements that make him a truly film genius.

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.