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Les Cousins is the second film from the acclaimed nouvelle vague innovator Claude Chabrol.
Charles and Paul, the cousins of the title, find themselves living together while they complete their studies in Paris. But while Charles is a clean-cut, studious country lad, Paul is a hard-partying playboy who lives a decadently amoral life with his bohemian pals. When Charles falls in love with Paul's friend Florence, Paul jealously tries to sabotage their relationship, a scheme which is complicated by the arrival of the university exam period. Displaying the ground-breaking style which would become synonymous with the movement, and starring two of its manistays, Jean-Claude Brialy and Gérard Blain, Les Cousins was the first commercial success of the French New Wave.
