The Cousins

About The Cousins

Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life.

Claude Chabrol's The Cousins is a 1959 drama film. It runs 112 minutes and was released in March 1959.

Gérard Blain appears as Charles, Jean-Claude Brialy as Paul, Juliette Mayniel as Florence, and Guy Decomble as Le libraire. Written by Claude Chabrol. It was produced by AJYM-Films.

Shelv files it under drunkenness, celebration, bookshop, and cousin. It streams on Criterion Channel in the United States.

The Mother and the Whore, Amélie, and Before Sunset make useful companions to The Cousins, all filed under love triangle. It scores 6.8 out of 10 from 103 TMDB voters.