Intimate Relations (1953 film)
Intimate Relations | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | Charles Frank (screenplay) |
Based on | the play Les Parents terribles by Jean Cocteau |
Produced by | David Dent |
Starring | Harold Warrender |
Cinematography | Wilkie Cooper |
Edited by | Peter Bezencenet |
Music by | René Cloërec |
Production company | David Dent Productions (as Advance) |
Distributed by | Adelphi Films Ltd. |
Release date |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Intimate Relations is a 1953 British drama film directed by and based upon the play Les Parents terribles by Jean Cocteau.[1] The film was known in the U.S. as Disobedient.[2] It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Plot[]
Crisis in a middle-class family when the son falls in love with his father's mistress. Family ties are stretched to breaking point, and the mother fears she'll lose her son as well as her husband.
Cast[]
- Harold Warrender as George
- Marian Spencer as Yvonne
- Ruth Dunning as Leonie
- William Russell as Michael (as Enoch Russell)
- Elsie Albiin as Madeline (as Elsy Albin)
Critical reception[]
The New York Times's review concluded "the film's highlight, one superbly conceived and well-performed scene with the father and girl at loggerheads over the boy. As we contend, the author does know better. He has perceptively hammerlocked youth and age, and until the half-way mark, the above-mentioned encounter, the quandary is genuinely intriguing. But M. Cocteau's triumphant rattling of the Oedipus legend tilts the apple cart, and some of his own dialogue provides the best summary. "What a nightmare!" moans Miss Spencer at one point. Mr. Warrender: "You're telling me" ;[4] and TV Guide wrote "the film is too talky and constricted by stage motifs. Enoch and Albiin, the mistress, do have a nice chemistry, though."[2]
References[]
- ^ "Intimate Relations (1953)". BFI.
- ^ a b "Disobedient". TVGuide.com.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Intimate Relations". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 3 March 2017.
- ^ H. H. T. (22 February 1954). "THE SCREEN IN REVIEW; ' Intimate Relations,' Film Version of a Play by Jean Cocteau, Arrives of the Baronet". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
External links[]
- 1953 films
- English-language films
- 1953 drama films
- British films
- British drama films
- Films based on works by Jean Cocteau
- British black-and-white films