{"id":14667,"date":"2021-12-23T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14667"},"modified":"2021-12-23T19:25:48","modified_gmt":"2021-12-24T00:25:48","slug":"les-cousins-1959-claude-chabrol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14667","title":{"rendered":"Les Cousins (1959, Claude Chabrol)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Handsomely depressing youth movie, 100 straight minutes of dudes talking shit with big camera moves.  Paul is New Wave regular Brialy with a dumb stache, lives in the city, and his cousin Charles (G\u00e9rard Blain, pinch-faced title star of <em>Le Beau Serge<\/em>) stays at his place while in university.  They throw parties: an older weirdo named Clovis likes to drink and scam people, Paul puts on Mozart and does a dramatic monologue in German, an opera-singing strongman is invited.  Charles fears that he&#8217;s a boring provincial mama&#8217;s boy, then bores us talking about his provincial mama.<\/p>\n<p><em>The contested Florence is Juliette Mayniel, first victim in <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/8614\">Eyes Without a Face<\/a>:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/cousins1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>It would seem an innocent movie of youth in the city, but there&#8217;s the Chabrol name and all the ornamental guns around (&#8220;good thing we have no bullets&#8221;).  Then Paul steals Charles&#8217;s girl, and we&#8217;ve got a meek guy living with the girl he wants and the cousin who stole her in a house full of guns, uh oh.  Charles absolutely loses himself in studying, while Paul stays out getting drunk, but Paul passes his exams and Charles does not &#8211; then Charles locates the bullets.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/cousins2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Handsomely depressing youth movie, 100 straight minutes of dudes talking shit with big camera moves. Paul is New Wave regular Brialy with a dumb stache, lives in the city, and his cousin Charles (G\u00e9rard Blain, pinch-faced title star of Le Beau Serge) stays at his place while in university. They throw parties: an older weirdo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[342,353,1900,34],"class_list":["post-14667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1950s","tag-claude-chabrol","tag-college","tag-france"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14667"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14718,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14667\/revisions\/14718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}