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Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

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Date: 26 Mar 2015 16:53:00
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
DVD9 | ISO+MDS | NTSC 4:3 | Cover+Booklet | 01:46:55 | 8,18 Gb
Audio: French AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subtitles: English
Genre: Art-house, Drama | The Criterion Collection #398

Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Stars: Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima

Writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville joined forces for this elegant adaptation of Cocteau’s immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Elisabeth (a remarkable Nicole Stéphane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe) close themselves off from the world by playing an increasingly intense series of mind games with the people who dare enter their lair—until romance and jealousy intrude. Melville’s operatic camera movements and Cocteau’s perverse, poetic approach to character merge in Les enfants terribles to create one of French cinema’s greatest, and most surprising, meetings of the minds.

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Les enfants terribles is fascinating primarily as an unexpected meeting of two brilliant, but vastly different minds: the iconic independent French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville, who is best known for his numerous crime films, including Bob le flambeur (1956), Le samouraï (1967), Le cercle rouge (1970), and Un flic (1972), and the poet and painter Jean Cocteau, whose own films, including Blood of a Poet (1930) and Beauty and the Beast (1946), were surrealist and experimental, resting in the gray zone between dreams and reality.

Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

The film was based on a 1929 novel by Cocteau (probably his most famous), and Melville directed it as if Cocteau were behind the camera, even if that actually happened on only one day of shooting when Melville was too sick to work. In this respect, Les enfants terribles seems to be much more a Cocteau film than a Melville film, even though Melville maintained control during production and, at one point, reportedly had Cocteau removed from the set because he was too distracting. Yet, even if the dreamlike atmosphere and patent unreality of Les enfants terribles doesn't immediately evoke the hard stylings of Melville, we can see traces of his influence, particularly in the brutally fatalistic ending that would become a key component of his later films.

Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

The story concerns the warped relationship between a brother and sister. The brother, Paul (Edouard Dermithe, Cocteau's then-lover who was cast despite his limited acting ability at Cocteau's insistence), is several years younger than his sister, Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane), and in many ways more conventionally feminine. Early in the film, Paul is hit in the chest by a snowball flung by Dargelos (Renée Cosima), a recurring character in Cocteau's work who represents schoolboy virility at its most untamed. For reasons that are never fully explained, this incident causes Paul great physical damage, and he spends the rest of the film in a state of weakness, usually bed-ridden even if he frequently shows no overt signs of sickness. Elisabeth tends to him just as she does their invalid mother (Maria Cyliakus), which makes her a sister and a mother figure to Paul, thus further complicating their already disturbingly incestuous relationship.

Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

The early passages in the film seem rough and unfocused; it's hard to see where the story is going, even as we are consistently unsettled by Paul and Elisabeth's interactions, which often catch their friend Gerard (Jacques Bernard) in the middle. The plot starts coming into better focus in the final third with the introduction of Agathe (also played by Renée Cosima), a young model who comes to live with Paul and Elisabeth and becomes a crucial new addition to the romantic entanglements that have already ensnared Gerard and the two siblings. It is at this point that the characters' traits fully cohere and we recognize just how weak and easily manipulated Paul is and how remorselessly treacherous Elisabeth is.

Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

As a fantastical psychological study, Les enfants terribles has a captivating quality, with the action seemingly taking place in an alternate universe composed primarily of enclosed spaces (the only time it feels truly open is during a dream sequence). This gives the film a starkly claustrophobic feeling, even when scenes take place in enormous, almost empty rooms, which reflects the narrative's insularity (when Elisabeth marries at one point, she is immediately widowed, suggesting that death and disorder awaits anyone from the “outside” who gets too close).
James Kendrick, The QNetwork Film Desk
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

Les enfants terribles - Criterion Collection is Highly Recommended. A sometimes abstract and isolated drama of scheming and adolescent self-belief, this bizarre story details the questionable relationship of two siblings and the way they inflict their convoluted games on people who cross their paths. The second film by French master Jean-Pierre Melville, Les enfants terribles is a collaboration of two vivid personalities, of the filmmaker and the artist, Jean Cocteau, who originally wrote the story. Regardless of the debate about the two men's working relationship, the truth is that this strange and contentious piece of cinema required the intersection of their artistic differences. What they came up with is an intriguing, perplexing, and utterly unforgettable (a)morality play.
Jamie S. Rich, DVDtalk
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]
Les Enfants Terribles (1950) [The Criterion Collection #398] [Re-UP]

Spedial Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Audio commentary by writer, film critic, and journalist Gilbert Adair
- Interviews with producer Carole Weisweiller, actors Nicole Stéphane and Jacques Bernard, and assistant director Claude Pinoteau
- Around Jean Cocteau (2003), a short video by filmmaker Noel Simsolo discussing Cocteau and Melville’s creative relationship
- Theatrical trailer
- Gallery of behind-the-scenes stills
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Indiana, a tribute by Stéphane, an excerpt from Rui Nogueira’s Melville on Melville, and drawings by Cocteau

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