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Les enfants terribles / Janus Films ; Gaumont Distribution ; Jean-Pierre Melville présente ; adaptation et dialogues de Jean Cocteau.
LIBRA DVD 010 792 DVD + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 398.
- The Criterion collection ; 398
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963--Film adaptations.
- Cocteau, Jean.
- Cocteau, Jean, 1889-1963.
- Incest--Drama.
- Incest.
- Siblings--Drama.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Dysfunctional families--Drama.
- Dysfunctional families.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Feature films.
- Motion pictures, French.
- Film adaptations.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in + 1 booklet (27 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).
- monochrome
- Edition:
- [Fullscreen édition].
- Other Title:
- Title on container: Jean Cocteau's Les enfants terribles
- Place of Publication:
- [United States] : Criterion Collection, [2007]
- Language Note:
- In French with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- DVD; Dolby Digital mono; Region 1, NTSC.
- digital
- optical
- mono
- Dolby
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Based on Cocteau's novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a teenage brother and sister. Elizabeth and Paul close themselves off from the world by playing an intense series of mind games with the people who dare enter their world.
- Participant:
- Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Renée Cosima, Jacques Bernard, et Roger Gaillard, et la voix de Jean Cocteau.
- Credits:
- Direction musicale, Paul Bonneau; production et réalisation de Jean-Pierre Melville.
- Notes:
- Release date: Jul. 24, 2007.
- Aspect ratio: 1.33:1.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
- Based on the 1929 novel Les enfants terribles by Jean Cocteau.
- Special features: About the film; Nicole Stephane interview; Around Jean Cocteau; stills gallery; theatrical trailer. Includes commentary by Gilbert Adair.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Arthur Wofsy, Class of 1937, Acquisitions Fund.
- Contains:
- Around Jean Cocteau.
- ISBN:
- 1934121703
- 9781934121702
- OCLC:
- 123452230
- Publisher Number:
- 715515024921
- CC1707D Criterion Collection
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