LES COUSINS

Chabrol's stylishly perverse variation on the ‘country bumpkin in the big city’ story has a provincial student visiting Paris to attend school and live with his cousin. Slowly, he is drawn into his cousin’s decadent Paris party scene. Their rivalries over a girl lead to a tragic end. 'Les Cousins' was one of the early French New Wave sensations and along with 'Breathless', 'The Four Hundred Blows' and 'Hiroshima Mon Amour', catapulted the movement to international recognition.

“Chabrol's second film is a riveting and perverse study of decadent Parisian student life with a touch of Cocteau's ‘Les Enfants Terribles’. The City of Light is captured by Decae's camera as if seen through the amazed eyes of Blain.” — HOLT’S FOREIGN FILM GUIDE

"Contains some of the best orgies on film." —PAULINE KAEL.

Direction and script by Claude Chabrol. Photo by Henri Decae. Music by Paul Misraki. With Jean-Claude Briary, Gerard Blain, Juliette Mayniel, Claude Cerval.

France, 1959, 112 minutes. French Dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-441-8
$29.95

LE BEAU SERGE
Bitter Reunion

A theology student, suffering from TB, returns to his native village to discover his talented childhood friend, Serge who has become a hopeless alcoholic and is estranged from his pregnant wife. A historically important film generally considered the first film of the French Nouvelle Vague.

Directed by Claude Chabrol. Script; Chabrol. Photo; Henri Decae. Music; Emile Delpierre. Cast; Girard Blain, Jean-Craude Brialy, Bernadette Lafont, Michele Meritz.

France 1958 97 minutes. French dialog with English subtitles.
ISBN: 1-55881-440-X
$29.95

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