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Les Enfants Terribles
a.k.a. Strange Ones, The Unmanageable Children Director: Jean-Pierre Melville Cast: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermit, Renee Cosima, Jacques Bernard

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  • DVD Release Date: 07/24/2007
  • Original Release: 1950
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Sales Rank: 23,294
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New, restored high-definition digital transfer; Audio commentary by writer, film critic, and journalist Gilbert Adair; Interviews with producer Carole Weisweiller, actors Nicole Stéphane and Jacques Bernard, and assistant director Claude Pinoteau; Around Jean Cocteau (2003), a short video by filmmaker Noël Simsolo discussing Cocteau and Melville's creative relationship; Theatrical trailer; Gallery of behind-the-scenes stills; New and improved English subtitle translation; Plus: A bookplet featuring a new essay by critic Gary Indiana, a tribute by Stéphane, an excerpt from Rui Nogueira's Melville on Melville, and drawings by Cocteau

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Disc #1 -- Enfants Terribles
1. Logos/Opening Credits [3:38]
2. Snowball Fight [5:00]
3. Elisabeth Nurses Paul [7:40]
4. Doctor's Visit [6:00]
5. Dargelos [3:19]
6. Mother [5:45]
7. To the Seaside [6:06]
8. Vacation Games [5:40]
9. In the Bedroom [5:32]
10. A Modeling Job [5:10]
11. Agathe [5:06]
12. Michael [9:18]
13. "Mourning Suits You" [3:36]
14. Paul's Own Room [4:53]
15. The Letter [7:57]
16. Elisabeth Spins Her Web [7:59]
17. Poison [6:28]
18. Dream of Death [7:41]

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Adapted by Jean Cocteau from his own novel and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, Les Enfants Terribles is set in motion when a sensitive youth, Paul (Edouard Dermit), is injured by a snowball flung by school bully Dargelos (Renée Cosima, an actress in male drag). The bully later reappears in the form of a young girl, Agathe (played again by Cosima), with whom Paul becomes infatuated. This arouses the displeasure of Paul's sister, Elisabeth (Nicole Stephane), who also harbors a carnal desire for her brother. Elisabeth arranges to destroy Paul's romance, forcing Agathe to marry another. The sister gets her comeuppance in a perversely indirect fashion at the hands of the male bully Dargelos. This film was completed in 1952, but not released in the U.S. until 1975. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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