COUSIN COUSIN
synopsis
Husband and wife Ludovic and Karine, and Ludovic's sixteen year old daughter Nelsa lead a relatively carefree life. Motorcycle riding Ludovic, a dance instructor, changes jobs every three years to keep himself interested in whatever he's doing. Ludovic recently remarried, this time to landscape designer Karine, a younger, beautiful woman who regardless is insecure due to her immaturity. Since she doesn't know how to handle that insecurity, Ludovic has placed Karine in various forms of therapy to help her with her life. Nelsa can see the cruelties that life has to offer, and although she doesn't like them, tries to embrace them to expose them for what they are. Ludovic wants to give everybody in his life, including Karine and Nelsa, as much freedom as they need to be happy. Husband and wife Pascal and Marthe and their adolescent son Eric lead a typical middle class life. Pharmaceutical salesman Pascal likes to think of himself as important to bolster his own sense of masculinity, which...
international title: | Cousin Cousin |
original title: | Cousin cousine |
country: | France |
year: | 1975 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Jean-Charles Tacchella |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | UK 10/1975, FR 19/11/1975, NL 26/05/1976, FI 29/10/1976, SE 23/05/1977, IE 05/08/1977, DK 15/09/1977, DE 16/09/1977, PT 10/11/1977, HU 10/05/1979, IT 07/09/2017 |
screenplay: | Jean-Charles Tacchella, Danièle Thompson |
cast: | Marie-Christine Barrault, Victor Lanoux, Marie-France Pisier |
cinematography by: | Eric Faucherre, Georges Lendi, Michel Thiriet |
film editing: | Marie-Aimée Debril, Agnès Guillemot, Juliette Welfling |
costumes designer: | Jeanne Vergne |
producer: | Daniel Toscan du Plantier |