Les Enfants Terribles (Les enfants terribles)

Mustanaamio7's Movie Diary 2025 (19 movies items)

"26.3. 2025 The siblings at the center of Melville's film live in their own world, defined by reckless behavior and defying the boundaries of the adult world, but also by the immaturity typical of teenagers. They play their own questionable mind games, in which outsiders sometimes have to participate unwillingly, which is probably their way of dealing with the confusion associated with adulthood. Melville fills each scene with energy that arises mainly from the fascinating, symptomatic relations"

“(BluR) Great text by Cocteau. Melville makes a lot with just pausing for allows Cocteau tex bright. Les enfants are really terrible, but most of all the girl Elisabeth. Paul the handsome is Cocteau´s favourite and he (and Melville) hast subtle homeerotic sequences...” read more

Watched in '22 (170 movies items)

"6.5.2022"

Movies the giraffe watched in 2018: April (24 movies items)

"First viewing - April 21st This felt like a homework assignment. I was curious to check out another of Melville's films, but this one was tedious. I couldn't stand any of the characters, and the whole thing felt repetitive. The brother and sister argue and escalate things and then the scene is over and we get narration that's grating and keeps explaining things rather than letting us experience them or allowing the actors to emote. It took me longer than it should have to watch this because aft"