Les cousins (1959) [The Criterion Collection #581] [Re-UP]

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Les cousins (1959)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | NTSC 4:3 | 01:49:43 | 7,47 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Drama | The Criterion Collection #581

Director: Claude Chabrol
Stars: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel

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.

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Chabrol's second directorial feature, the impressively artistic and comercial film “The Cousins,” which he also produced and co-wrote (with Paul Gegauff) deals with the contrast and rivalry between two cousines studying law in Paris.


Charles (Gerard Blain) is a wide eyed innocent and timid guy from the provinces, whereas Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy) is a cynical, insensitive brute from the City. When the eranest Blain comes to stay with Brialy in Paris so that he can study at university, the big-city, dcadent lad sets out to warp him and then defeat him in a love contest, when they both fall for the same girl, Florence (Juliette Mayniel).


The jealous Paul breaks the romance by seducing Florence, turning Charles into an inconsolable guy hwo now seeks refuge in literature (Balzac novels), hoping to avhieve redemption after his final exam.


Ironically, despite hard work, Charles fails the exam, whereas his lazy cousin Paul Gtes the diploma. Most of the proceedings are shot fom the point of view of Charles, who in the end resorts to violence when he grans Paul's gun and places on bullet in it, but again he fails when he triggers the gun and the shot doesn't fire. From that point on, the rivalrly escalates to a harrowing level, ending on an inornic note when the less expected cousin finds his death in a senseless act.


Clearly Chabrol delights in the decadence of the student life, in the same way that Fellini dwould delight a year later in portraying the decadent life of Rome's bourgoisie in “La Dolce Vita.” At the time, a long party scene, received a lot of attention and was quite controversial—even for French audiences. Production values, particularly Henri Decae's sharp cinematography and Paul Mizraki's moody score are original as well as impressive.


A darkly satirical and twisted exmination of family relationships, Chabrol's film is a seminal work of the French New Wave, which erupted into the international scene a year later with three major works: Jean-Luc Godard's “Breathless,” Truffaut's “The 400 Blows,” and Alain Resnais' “Hirsohima, mon Amour.”


Born in 1930, Chabrol made his feature debut with the impressive “Bitter Reunion” (Le Beau Serge”), in 1958, which also stars Jean-Claude Brialy. The film was followed within months by another internationally artistic and commercial triumph, “Les Cousins.” Chabrol was the first among the quintet of French New Wave director to achieve fame and success, which was recognized with the Jean Vigo Prize and the Golden Bear Award at the 1959 Berlin Film Fest.
Emanuel Levy

Special Features:
- New digital restoration (with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)
- Audio commentary featuring film scholar Adrian Martin
- Theatrical trailer
- New and improved English subtitle translation

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