Recent Viewing: the New Wave
I recently dipped into the French New Wave to watch a few films I’d previously missed – Claude Chabrol’s first two features, Le Beau Serge (1958) and Les Cousins (1959), and Agnes Varda’s Le Bonheur […]
Review: Les Cousins (1959)
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Geneviève Cluny,
Gérard Blain
Jean-Claude Brialy
Juliette Mayniel
Guy Decomble
Geneviève Cluny
Plot: Charles is a young provincial coming up to Paris to study law. He shares his cousin Paul's flat. Paul is a kind of decadent boy, a disillusioned pleasure-seeker, always dragging along with other idles, while Charles is a plodding, naive and honest man. He fell in love with Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances. But how will Paul react to that attempt to build a real love relationship ? One of the major New Wave films.
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