Les Enfants terribles

★★★★★

Original title: The Terrible Children · Turkish title: Müthiş Çocuklar

“A love story by Jean Cocteau”

1950 · 1 h 45 min

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville

Drama

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Cast

Nicole Stéphane Édouard Dermithe Jacques Bernard Renée Cosima

Plot

An adaptation of Cocteau's novel about a brother and sister.

Sinekatalog’s take

Jean-Pierre Melville's Cocteau adaptation shuts a brother and sister in a private world of games and destructive devotion. Eerie, theatrical and hypnotic, with Nicole Stéphane unforgettable, it is a stylised, claustrophobic cult favourite.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (4,627 votes)
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