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Les Cousins Claude Chabrol, France, 1959; 112m ADDED: Tuesday, December 7 at 8:15pm! Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Chabrol’s second feature reverses the personalities in Le Beau Serge, with Jean-Claude Brialy as a suave slacker given to orgies and casual seductions. Into his dangerous urban world comes his sweet, innocent country cousin, Charles (Gérard Blain). The latter studies like mad for his exams while Paul parties and steals Charles’s girlfriend—naturally, the bourgeois country mouse fails and the decadent city rat passes. This dark little fable climaxes in a wild bohemian party and an extraordinarily cruel jape. Cinematographer Henri Decaë illuminates Paris so that we see the magical city as it would dazzle the eyes of a naive newcomer. “As a production, The Cousins glitters as if it were terribly expensive. It contains some of the best orgies on film, and every scene is smooth and elegant. Perhaps it is Chabrol’s almost extravagant command of the medium…that made Americans less sympathetic than they have been toward unpolished, rough, uncontrolled work...You may like or dislike The Cousins but you certainly won’t feel that the director is an amateur to whom you should be chairtable.”—Pauline Kael

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