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In Les cousins, Claude Chabrol crafts a sly moral fable about a provincial boy who comes to live with his sophisticated bohemian cousin in Paris. Through these seeming opposites, Chabrol conjures a darkly comic character study that questions notions of good and evil, love and jealousy, and success in the modern world. A mirror image of Le beau Serge, Chabrol’s debut, Les cousins recasts that film’s stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles. This dagger-sharp drama won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and was an important early entry in the French New Wave.
Original Release
03/11/1959
US Release
11/23/1959
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Gérard Blain | Charles |
Jean-Claude Brialy | Paul Thomas / Paul |
Juliette Mayniel | Florence |
Guy Decomble | Le libraire |
Genevieve Cluny | Geneviève |
Michele Meritz | Yvonne |
Corrado Guarducci | Italian Count Minerva |
Stephane Audran | Françoise |
Paul Bisciglia | Marc |
Jeanne Perez | La femme de ménage |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Gérard Blain | Charles |
Jean-Claude Brialy | Paul Thomas / Paul |
Juliette Mayniel | Florence |
Guy Decomble | Le libraire |
Genevieve Cluny | Geneviève |
Michele Meritz | Yvonne |
Corrado Guarducci | Italian Count Minerva |
Stephane Audran | Françoise |
Paul Bisciglia | Marc |
Jeanne Perez | La femme de ménage |
Françoise Vatel | Martine |
André Chanal | |
Gilbert Edard | |
Clara Gansard | |
Jean-Louis Maury | Un étudiant joueur de bridge |
Virginie Vitry | |
Jean-Marie Arnoux | |
Robert Barre | |
Michel Benoist | |
Gaby Blondé |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Claude Chabrol | Producer |
Roland Nonin | Producer |