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Les Parents terribles is a 1948 film adaptation directed by Jean Cocteau from his own stage play Les Parents terribles. Cocteau used the same cast who had appeared in a successful stage revival of the play in Paris in 1946. The film has sometimes been known by the English title The Storm Within.
With Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray, Marcel André. Michel is in love with Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home.
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- Drama
- Jean Cocteau
- 1950-04-22
Dans un grand appartement parisien, où se côtoient le désordre d’un couple âgé et l’ordre de la tante Léonie, vieille fille, Michel est l’enfant choyé de cette étrange « roulotte » qui semble rouler à l’écart du monde. Yvonne idolâtre son fils jusqu'à en oublier son mari.
- Jean Cocteau
- Les Parents terribles
- Jean Cocteau
Jul 26, 2020 · Les Parents terribles begins with hand-drawn animation of a theatre curtain rising to reveal not a stage, or even a wide shot, but a jarring close-up of the bizarre Georges (Marcel André) in a scuba mask, aiming his sub-machine gun at something, or someone, out of frame.
- Donovan Renn
‘Les Parents Terribles’ In French with English subtitles. Not rated. Running time: 1 hour, 45 minutes. Playing: Starts July 13, Laemmle Royal, West Los Angeles
An effective mix of drama, social satire and farce, Les Parents terribles is Jean Cocteau's most overt assault against the kind of insular bourgeois morality that free-thinking artists of his ilk held to be a threat to French society and individual fulfilment in the 1940s. The play and the film can also be interpreted as a coded attack on ...
Les Parents terribles est un film réalisé par Jean Cocteau avec Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau. Synopsis : Michel aime Madeleine et veut l'épouser, mais ses parents s'opposent à son mariage. En...
