The Strange Ones (1950)

03/29/1950Drama1h 47m
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A love story by Jean Cocteau

Overview

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Nicole Stéphane

    Elisabeth

  2. Cast 1

    Edouard Dermithe

    Paul

  3. Cast 1

    Renée Cosima

    Dargelos / Agathe

  4. Cast 1

    Jacques Bernard

    Gerard

  5. Cast 1

    Jean Cocteau

    Narrator (voice)

  6. Melvyn Martin

    Michael

  7. Maria Cyliakus

    Mother

  8. Cast 1

    Jean-Marie Robain

    Headmaster

  9. Maurice Revel

    Doctor

"Paul" (Edouard Dermithe) is a young man who comes off rather badly after a snowball fight; one finds it's mark necessitating a visit from their doctor who advises bedrest - on a pretty permanent basis! He is to be looked after by his sister "Elisabeth" (Nicole Stéphane) with whom he shares a room. What now ensues is a hybrid of the sibling and the marital as their love to hate to love relationship, bordering on the incestuous (but never actually more than bordering) evolves. Both characters are handsome to look at, there are undercurrents of homosexuality and depravity - moral, certainly, phy...

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Original LanguageFrench 

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