Les Enfants Terribles Jean-Pierre Melville [videorecording]=

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Jean-Pierre Melville

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: French Summary language: English Original language: French Subtitle language: English Publication details: France Melville Productions 1950Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) sound, black&white. 4 3/4 inLOC classification:

PN1997 .E543 1950

Summary: From case cover: In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, teenage brother and sister Paul and Elisabeth live 'like two limbs of a single body' inside their untidy shared bedroom. Within the room, they live, sleep, argue and play out their erotically charged games without heed to the real world going on around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their intensely private realm, the scene is set for tragedy. A relatively unknown filmmaker at the time, Melville had impressed Cocteau with his striking first feature, the Occupation drama Le Silence de la mer (1947), and here he brings a cool, lucid eye to Jean Cocteau's claustrophobic, hothouse novel. Les Enfants terribles is evidence of the tension between these two dramatically different filmmakers, yet together they have created a hauntingly atmospheric film. Spawning several imitations and most recently an inspiration for Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), Les Enfants terribles is dominated by a performance of fierce intensity by Nicole Stéphane as the scheming heorine Elisabeth, and music by Bach and Vivaldi forms the film's provocative, impassioned score.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
DVD - Video	SILC Learning Support Services DH132-DVD-B: DVD Cabinet B	PN1997 .E543 1950	Available		002432

Special features include:
- Feature commentary by novelist and critic Gilbert Adair
- Interview with actress Nicole Stéphane
- Director, writer and cast biographies

From case cover:
In this compelling tale of incestuous obsession, teenage brother and sister Paul and Elisabeth live 'like two limbs of a single body' inside their untidy shared bedroom. Within the room, they live, sleep, argue and play out their erotically charged games without heed to the real world going on around them. However, when outsiders intrude into their intensely private realm, the scene is set for tragedy.

A relatively unknown filmmaker at the time, Melville had impressed Cocteau with his striking first feature, the Occupation drama Le Silence de la mer (1947), and here he brings a cool, lucid eye to Jean Cocteau's claustrophobic, hothouse novel. Les Enfants terribles is evidence of the tension between these two dramatically different filmmakers, yet together they have created a hauntingly atmospheric film.

Spawning several imitations and most recently an inspiration for Bertolucci's The Dreamers (2003), Les Enfants terribles is dominated by a performance of fierce intensity by Nicole Stéphane as the scheming heorine Elisabeth, and music by Bach and Vivaldi forms the film's provocative, impassioned score.

DVD video; Dolby Digital 1.0; monaural; PAL; Regions 2; 1.33:1 as 4:3 fullscreen.

French audio. Optional English subtitles.

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