The Cousin

The Cousin
The Cousin
Directed by	Aldo Lado
Written by	Luisa Montagnana; Massimo Franciosa; from the novel by Ercole Patti
Produced by	Felice Testa Gay
Starring	Massimo Ranieri; Dayle Haddon; Christian De Sica
Cinematography	Gábor Pogány
Edited by
Music by	Ennio Morricone
Production; company	Testa Gay Cinematografica
Distributed by	Unidis
Release date	26 July 1974
Running time	92 minutes
Country	Italy
Language	Italian

The Cousin (Italian: La cugina is an Italian drama film by the director Aldo Lado, with a score by Ennio Morricone, that was released in 1974. From a novel by Ercole Patti, it tells the coming of age stories of a group of young people in Sicily in the 1950s.^[1]^[2]

Summary[]

Like other young bourgeois men, Enzo learns about sex with servants, whores and married women. None excite him like his alluring cousin Agata, who has tantalised him with erotic games since childhood. Her ambition, however, is to keep her virginity and make an advantageous marriage. She sets her sights on Nini, amiable but dim, who is a nobleman and has a country estate. To force his hand, a venal priest arranges a fake abduction and then marries the pair. Now baroness and mistress of a vast palazzo, she discovers that her precious virginity was wasted on Nini, who is uninterested in marital sex. When a proud Enzo comes round to tell the two that he has graduated, she gives herself to him at last.

Production[]

In an interview published in 2005 the director said the story of the original novel was altered so that the erotic tension between the two cousins gradually intensified up to the time of their final encounter. When filming it, he and his cinematographer decided to alternate between normal time and slow motion: “What I wanted to convey was that for them at that moment time as we know it had ceased to exist.”^[3]

Cast[]

Massimo Ranieri as Enzo
Dayle Haddon as Agata
Christian De Sica as Ninì Scuderi
Stefania Casini as Lisa Scuderi
as Giovannella
as Ugo
Francesca Romana Coluzzi as Deputy's Wife
José Quaglio as Fragalà
Laura Betti as Rosalia
as Maid
as Peppino
as Carmela
Lisa Seagram as Murderess

References[]

^ (it)"CinemaItaliano". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
^ (fr)"Iken-Eiga". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
^ "Percorsi alternativi (Controcorrente 2) Guida al cinema di Aldo Lado", Nocturno Dossier (30), January 2005

External links[]

The Cousin at IMDb

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[1] (it)"CinemaItaliano". Retrieved 20 August 2016.

[2] (fr)"Iken-Eiga". Retrieved 20 August 2016.

[3] "Percorsi alternativi (Controcorrente 2) Guida al cinema di Aldo Lado", Nocturno Dossier (30), January 2005

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