Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
- Original title
- Les Enfants terribles
- Directed by
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Genre
- drama film, romance film, LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 6.6 of 10 from 122 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A brother and sister are entangled in an intense, isolated relationship. Cocteau narrates this 1950 French adaptation of his own novel about their tangled bond.
intimatetensemelancholicclaustrophobicatmosphericcerebraldreamlikeemotionally intenseslow-burn
What happens
Les Enfants terribles (French pronunciation: [lez‿ɑ̃fɑ̃ teʁibl]; literal English translation: The Terrible Children; English title: The Strange Ones) is a 1950 French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, with a screenplay adapted by Jean Cocteau from his 1929 novel of the same name about the tangled relationship of a close brother and sister. The film's soundtrack of Vivaldi concertos was unusual at the time and praised for its use in increasing the dramatic tension of the plot. Cocteau provided the voice-over narration of the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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