{"id":15891,"date":"2023-09-26T20:30:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15891"},"modified":"2023-09-26T16:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T20:44:10","slug":"les-parents-terribles-1948-jean-cocteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15891","title":{"rendered":"Les Parents Terribles (1948, Jean Cocteau)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cocteau was briefly prolific as a filmmaker after the war and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9129\">Beauty and the Beast<\/a><\/em> &#8211; this came out a couple months after <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14701\">The Two-Headed Eagle<\/a><\/em>, then <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6277\">Orpheus<\/a><\/em> premiered just over a year later.  It&#8217;s got smooth camera and nice lighting, if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for, but feels too stagy.<\/p>\n<p>Belle and the Beast are back, human and in love, but his overprotective parents are out to stop their marriage.  Marais&#8217;s dad (Marcel Andr\u00e9) is having an affair with his own son&#8217;s belle, to teach them a lesson or something, worrier mom (Yvonne de Bray of <em>Eagle<\/em>) has health problems, and aunt Leo (fashion icon Gabrielle Dorziat) is either helping or fouling everything up.  Everybody&#8217;s overdoing it until mom can&#8217;t take it anymore and does herself in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/terribles1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The Most Manipulative Family of All Time:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/terribles2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>The two sides of Aunt Leo:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/terribles3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/terribles4.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cocteau was briefly prolific as a filmmaker after the war and Beauty and the Beast &#8211; this came out a couple months after The Two-Headed Eagle, then Orpheus premiered just over a year later. It&#8217;s got smooth camera and nice lighting, if that&#8217;s what you&#8217;re looking for, but feels too stagy. Belle and the Beast [&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":[416,34,323,1152],"class_list":["post-15891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-france","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-jean-marais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891","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=15891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15920,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15891\/revisions\/15920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}