Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Infamousta brilliant actors, brilliant editing

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Jemima It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

gridoon2018 "Les Cousins" is the first of two early Claude Chabrol movies ("Les Godelureaux" / "Wise Guys" is the other one) which seem to exist merely to show us that the lives of the idle rich are fun but superficial and empty (Jean Claude Brialy essentially plays the same character in both!). Chabrol makes this point early on, and then belabors it for nearly two hours. There are long, boring scenes in which nothing happens except the characters partying. The film has no plot, but Chabrol does have an ace up his sleeve - a sudden surprise ending (for those viewers who stick with it until then). A lesser Chabrol film in my opinion, although it seems to be highly regarded critically. ** out of 4.

Antonius Block This movie by French New Wave filmmaker Claude Chabrol has a pretty simple plot, but was enjoyable nonetheless. In a nutshell, Charles, an innocent and earnest young law student, moves to Paris from the provinces to live with Paul, his sophisticated, profligate cousin. He's immediately exposed to the party life, which is both wild (there is a lot of flirting and bottle smashing) and somewhat amusing (the young men are all in suits and ties, play Bridge in bars, and listen to Mozart and Wagner at parties). He falls for Florence, a woman who's been around, and while she wants to have a meaningful relationship, she's convinced by Paul and another friend that she'll find him boring. She ends up with Paul instead, and moves in with the two of them. Charles actually takes it quite well, sharing meals with them and doing his best to ignore them, for example, as they shower together. He gets a free book and great advice from a bookseller (study hard, and "Read Dostoyevsky - he addresses all your concerns!"), who was naturally my favorite character :). Exams loom, and while Charles tries to apply himself, Paul parties on. I won't spoil it any more than I already have.This was one of those old movies that was anything but boring. The New Wave movement had as its aim to make movies that were different in content and style, and this succeeds; it's quite edgy for its time, and Chabrol has some great shot sequences here. Seeing it really transported me to the Latin Quarter in 1959 Paris.

zetes Chabrol's second feature. I haven't seen his first, Le beau Serge, but this is the most French New Wave film I've seen from Chabrol. As such, it's by far my favorite. I like several of his films, but I do find even my favorites a little dry. This one is just gorgeous and it's quite a lot of fun throughout. Gerard Blain plays a provincial who is moving to Paris to go to college. He moves in with his cousin (Jean-Claude Brialy), who is himself a student. Brialy is a total party animal, spending all his free time drinking with friends and none of it studying. The two get along at first, but then a woman (Juliette Mayniel) comes between them. The film is kind of a precursor to Jules et Jim.

movie reviews New wave old wave this a movie film fans love to analyze. For a simple un-corrupted by preconceptions view I offer the following:Plot: Naive but wealthy country bumpkin Charles arrives in Paris to study law....lives with his cousin Paul who shows him the latest new fast lane life of Paris (1959) = Beatnik goofy eccentric endless partying with women who really just want amusement and sex not overly serious relations. Charles falls for one such girl...Paul takes her away as a sort of lesson to Charles about her true nature. Charles flunks his law exam and then in despair and suppressed jealousy tries to kill Paul in his sleep by putting one bullet in a revolver a la Russian Roulette....Paul sleeps on after the click of the firing pin and after waking playfully points the gun at Charles and kills him with that one bullet (which he of course knows nothing about).The film is talky and somewhat boring. I was not on the edge of my seat when Charles turns to reverse Russian Roulette and felt it anticlimactic when Paul accidentally kills him at the end.There is symbolism everywhere every detail in every set thought out. This is not bad---for example: one pretty obvious one has Charles paging through the Code Penal while the girl he is in love with flicks on and off a light--you know a foreboding of his Russian Roulette.I like the time travel in these movies....for that you need lots of street scenes to see the cars (the most enjoyable part of this movie for me--far too little of it though)...The bohemian apartment life just made Paul look like an idiot...if they were meant to underline the wild loose eccentric life they do the opposite--appear trite and forced.I remember reading somewhere that Charbol loved American cars---there is an odd on in this movie a Nash. He also reportedly watched 3 American movies a day--I auppoaw during his formative years.It took me 2 settings to view this film...Unless you grew up in France of the late 50s and early 60s speak French (myself)...or like to micro analyze sets and dialog...don't really recommend.