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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in
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Criterion collection #581
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1959
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 piercing, 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, Les Cousins recasts that film's stars, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gřard Blain, in startlingly reversed roles
Special features: digital restoration ; audio commentary ; A 2011 documentary by filmmaker Pierre-Henri Gibert about the making of Les cousing ; theatrical trailer ; booket featuring an essay by film critic Terrence Rafferty
Photography, Henri Decaë ; editor, Jacques Gaillard ; music, Paul Misraki
Gerard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Genevieve Cluny
DVD, NTSC; Dolby digital mono.; region 1; full screen presentation
French dialogue with optional English subtitles