Description: 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 and play 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. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURESNew, restored high-definition digital transferAudio commentary by writer, film critic, and journalist Gilbert AdairInterviews with producer Carole Weisweiller, actors Nicole Stéphane and Jacques Bernard, and assistant director Claude PinoteauAround Jean Cocteau (2003), a short video by filmmaker Noël Simsolo discussing Cocteau and Melville's creative relationshipTheatrical trailerGallery of behind-the-scenes stillsNew and improved English subtitle translationPLUS: 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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Language: French
Features: Full Screen
Release Year: 1950
Movie/TV Title: Criterion Collection: Les Enfants Terribles [French] [Fullscreen] [B& W]
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Format: DVD
Genre: Foreign
Studio: Criterion Collection
