Les Enfants Terribles (1950) - (Movie Clip) A Perfect Battlefield

Les Enfants Terribles (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Suicide Is A Deadly Sin

Stir-crazy Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) observes weird behavior by her brother Paul (Edouard Dermit), whom she’s still nursing following his snowball-fight injury, then receives his classmate Gerard (Jacques Bernard), leading to further fighting and a visit to their invalid mother, in writer Jean Cocteau and director Jean-Pierre Melville’s Les Enfants Terribles, 1950.

vLes Enfants Terribles (1950) -- (Movie Clip) I'll Keep The Boys Out Of Trouble

Vacationing at the beach, the uncle (Roger Gaillard) brings nephew Gerard (Jacques Bernard) and his two weird, orphaned friends (Nicole Stéphane and Edouard Dermit as Elisabeth and Paul) to a shop, where novelist, screenwriter and narrator Jean Cocteau further describes their strange game, in Les Enfants Terribles, 1950, directed by Jean-Pierre Melville.

Les Enfants Terribles (1950) -- (Movie Clip) Two Halves Of One Body

Continuing exposition by novelist, screenwriter and narrator Jean Cocteau, director Jean-Pierre Melville and cinematographer Henri Decae, on the relationship between Elisabeth (Nicole Stéphane) and brother Paul (Edouard Dermit, Cocteau’s lover at the time) whom she’s nursing, along with their mother, following a weird injury, in Les Enfants Terribles, 1950.