Les Parents terribles (1948)

Directed by

Jean Cocteau

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 40m

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 28 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A family is trapped in a web of secrets and emotional manipulation. The mother is overprotective of her adult son while the father is distant. When the son announces he wants to marry a young woman, their fragile household begins to unravel.

tenseclaustrophobicmelodramaticintimateemotionally rawtheatricalurgent

What happens

Les Parents terribles is a 1948 film adaptation directed by Jean Cocteau from his own stage play Les Parents terribles. Cocteau used the same cast who had appeared in a successful stage revival of the play in Paris in 1946. The film has sometimes been known by the English title The Storm Within. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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