Saturday, November 29, 2014

Les Enfants Terribles (1950)


Gaumont
Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)

Siblings Paul and Elisabeth fight, bicker and torment each other in their bedroom. Some of their friends start living with them in a giant mansion she inherits after her newlywed husband dies. They all fall in love with each other, but not to the satisfaction of Elisabeth, so she manipulates their emotions to pit them against each other. Boring people doing bad things to each other for no real reason, with pretentious narration by the author of this melodramatic mess, Jean Cocteau.

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