#Les Cousins

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

[tle13]

[byneddiedingo]

Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain in Les Cousins (Claude Chabrol, 1959)

Cast: Gérard Blain, Jean-Claude Brialy, Juliette Mayniel, Guy Decomble, Geneviève Cluny, Michèle Méritz, Corrado Guarducci, Stéphane Audran, Paul Bisciglia. Screenplay: Claude Chabrol, Paul Gégauff. Cinematography: Henri Decaë. Production design: Bernard Evein, Jacques Saulnier. Film editing: Jacques Gaillard. Music: Paul MIsraki.

Chekhov's gun plays a major role in Les Cousins, heightening the suspense about who will use it on whom. But the film isn't a suspense thriller, despite Chabrol's admiration for Hitchcock, so much as a deliciously perverse adaption of some classic fables: the country mouse and the city mouse, and the ant and the grasshopper. It also resonates ironically with Balzac's Lost Illusions, the novel that a bookseller (Guy Decomble) allows Charles (Gérard Blain) to "steal" from his shop. In the Balzac novel, a young man from the provinces goes to Paris to seek fame, fortune, and love, and his misadventures wreak havoc on himself and the people he loves. In Les Cousins, country mouse/ant Charles goes to Paris to share an apartment with his cousin, Paul (Jean-Claude Brialy), the city mouse/grasshopper, while both study law. Paul is a somewhat decadent hedonist, who tries to introduce the straiter-laced Charles, who is very much dedicated to his mother back home, to the delights of the city. One of these delights is the promiscuous Florence (Juliette Mayniel), with whom Charles falls in love, only to have things end badly when she chooses to live with Paul instead. Chabrol fills the movie with quirky, somewhat sinister characters, though never turns the film into a clear-cut tale of good vs. evil. Innocence doesn't triumph over cynicism here, though cynicism pays a price, which is what makes Chabrol's film such a grandly satisfying one to watch and to think about afterward. Blain and Brialy (in a suitably Mephistophelean mustache and beard) are brilliant, and the cinematographer, Henri Decaë, gives us a grand evocation of Paris in the 1950s.

[mad-prophet-of-the-airwaves]

Rest in peace, Juliette Mayniel (1936-2023).

[erraticcowboy]

fitzconte but make it belle époque for @strangebabushka

[zivazivc]

I've been slowly tweaking these designs for a couple of weeks now, and now I can finally introduce the Uncles, the colorful group of friends/roommates who raised Hed and Les (word "raised" used loosely, but they definitely shared the living space with them).

From left to right: Kymani, Bramble, Adewale, Benji, Jenga, and Licorice "Ish" with his boys. Let's say Hed and Les are 15 and 19 here, maybe a year older, which means the rest are only in their mid 30s.

[cringefail-clown]

ive decided to polish out the coffeshop college au from this post so heres the lineup of the crew from Colors and Mayhem: Cafe and Pub lmfao

so in this au hal's a biomedical engineering major in the area of neural engineering, working part time in a cafe&pub combo owned by callie and cal - fraternal twins who cannot stand each other but made a co-owned business bc theyd not survive on their own in this economy (they couldnt agree if they wanted a calm little coffee spot for studying and meeting friends (callies idea) or an older university partygoers hot spot (cal) so they combined the two into the unhinged mess that it is)

besides hal, theres: equius, engineering student who breaks shit all the time but theyre understaffed as it is so no one fired him yet; damara, a psychology major with the goal of becoming sexologist and gamzee. nobody knows what gamzees doing here

basically its pure chaos all the time

[cowabummers]

Bro. Not in front of the wenches, bro.

Inspired by this paragraph from Chretien's Knight of the Lion:

[potatosonnet]

In the eyes of your god

[ninadove]

Can an unstoppable force and an immovable object be friends? 🥺

[thewomanwithmissingfingers]

[asexualbert]

I talk a lot (maybe not enough, try me) about how Albert has Older Brother Energy (despite being a youngest sibling by blood) but I feel like the energy he really has to most, particularly the younger boys, particularly Les, is Your Cool Older Cousin

[its-to-the-death]

Villain Song Showdown Bracket E Round 1

Master of the House (Les Miserables) - Villain: Monsieur Thénardier & Madame Thénardier

Grandpa's Gonna Sue the Pants Off Santa (Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer) - Villains: Cousin Mel and Slime

[chiropteracupola]

This was courtiers’ garb, rich and soft, though evidently cut for the use of another. Beautiful garments with little purpose, and, Montjoy thought, unlikely to hold together long if they were called upon to face the wear of the road. Henry did not intend to dress him as a servant, even one who acted as prince among messengers, but as a lord — the finely woven linen was terribly soft against his skin, and the hands that secured each lacing were careful indeed.

1418 - With his own hands.

[cherriiramen]

He’s seen things. And now Enjolras won’t ever hear the last of it.

Shoujo Cosette’s Gavroche interpretion is criminally underrated

[countvonreutern]

His Serene Highness The Count of Münnich and Reutern extends his heartfelt best wishes to his esteemed cousin, His Majesty King Charles III, on the occasion of His Majesty’s 76th birthday.

His Majesty is His Serene Highness's seventh cousin twice removed through Her Majesty the late Queen Elizabeth II, and his tenth cousin once removed through His Royal Highness the late Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.