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The Storm Within

Les Parents terribles

1948

Jean Cocteau

Jean Marais, Josette Day, Yvonne de Bray, Marcel André ...

6.8

316

Drama When Michel, who's 22, tells his parents he is in love, his mother Yvonne is distraught, believing she will lose his love (which is the center of her life), and his father Georges is distressed because it is Georges' mistress, Madeleine, whom his son loves. Yvonne and Georges financially and emotionally depend on Michel's maiden aunt, Léo, who was once engaged to Georges but gave him up to her sister. Léo resolves to help them separate ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		John DeFore The Hollywood Reporter	"A formally inventive showcase for old-school melodrama (...) The filmmaking still looks fresh"
		Tom Milne Time Out	"[It is] an astonishingly dynamic film (...) Melodrama of the highest order. Stunning ensemble performances, but Yvonne de Bray (the mother) is out of this world."

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