Les cousins (Criteron Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

Having presented the complex pleasures and pains of country life in the first film of the French New Wave Le beau Serge, writer-director Claude Chabrol now reverses himself by picturing the joys and devastations of big city life in Les cousins. He’s not only reversed the settings of his first two films from country to city, but he’s taken his two leading actors from Serge and let them flip personalities for Les cousins. It’s a fascinating juxtaposition of characters and settings and makes for an even more intriguing and bold domestic psychological tragedy than Le beau Serge.

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