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Les Enfants Terribles
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20 November 2017, 13:00 EST
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Les Enfants Terribles
Gaumont, 1950. French grande poster, style B, linen-backed and framed. Art by Jean Cocteau. Les Enfants Terribles (The Terrible Children) is a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Melville and based on Jean Cocteau's novel of the same name. It is an elegant adaptation of Cocteau's immensely popular, wicked novel about the wholly unholy relationship between a brother and sister. Melville's theatrical camera movements and Cocteau's perverse, poetic approach to character creates one of French cinema's greatest, and most surprising, meetings of minds. A true artist of the cinematic form, Cocteau's poster created an unparalleled dream world. It reflects an avant-garde, surrealist theme in a contemporary take on classical mythology. It is a visually innovative exploration of art, sex, love, and death--mementos of one of cinema's most richly creative minds.
47 x 63 in.
47 x 63 in.
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Please note that this poster is not framed.



















