Thursday, December 16, 2010

Les Enfants Terribles

France Jean Pierre Melville 1950

This was truly awful...so bad I'm surprised anyone here ever found work in films again. The absurdly contentious relationship between teen brother and sister was completely over-the-top. They slept in the same room and fought nonstop...physically, sometimes throwing stuff at each other.

Then she...about as butch as a woman can be...marries a fabulously rich guy who dies the next day, leaving her a rich widow. There's more but it's not worth telling.

What on earth were these people thinking? Adapted from a script by Jean Cocteau, complete with stupidly poetic voiceover.

Some camera work was interesting but the endless fighting got real old real fast. A terrible movie that irritated throughout.

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