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Les Cousins
FRANCE · 1959

Les Cousins

Claude Chabrol
drunkenness law student bookshop celebration decadence
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Synopsis

Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.

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