Cousin, Cousine
- Marie -Christine Barrault: Marthe
- Victor Lanoux Ludovic
- Marie -France Pisier: Karine
- Guy Marchand: Pascal
- Ginette Garcin: Biju
- Sybil Maas: Diane
- Popeck: Sacy
- Pierre Plessis: Gobert
- Catherine Lost: Nelsa
- Hubert Gignoux: Thomas
Cousin, Cousine ( DDR Title: Cousin and Cousine ) is a romantic comedy by Jean -Charles Tacchella, on 19 November 1975 had theatrical release in France and the hit movie of the season 1975/1976 was. In 1989, a remake under the title page jumps ( cousins) in the cinemas.
Action
Marthe and Ludovic dance teacher ( cousin, or cousin, both unhappy in their marriage ) get to the wedding celebration of Martha's mother Biju ( she married Gobert ) know and make friends. They meet regularly at family gatherings, their relationship is purely platonic at first. It was only when their respective spouses Pascal and Karine ( he was a notorious womanizer, they on the verge of a nervous breakdown ), be suspicious that maintain an affair with each other, they also think of living together, which they then announce on Christmas Eve the other.
Others, prices
The movie was released in the U.S. from 25 July 1976, and there was the biggest success of a French film since A Man and a Woman of Claude Lelouch in 1966 and to La Cage Aux Folles Édouard Molinaro 1979. In the Federal Republic, he was born on 16 September, in the GDR on 23 December 1977 in the cinemas.
1977, the film received three Academy Award nominations: for Best Screenplay, Best Foreign Language Film and Marie -Christine Barrault as Best Actress. Tacchella 1976 was nominated for a César Award for Best Director and for the screenplay and Victor Lanoux for Best Actor. But alone Marie- France Pisier won a César Award for Best Supporting Actress. 1977, the film was also nominated for best foreign film for the Golden Globe. In 1975 he won the Prix Louis Delluc and 1977 the award for best foreign film of Film Critics Association of Kansas City.
Criticism
"Just watched staged with an eye for details, ironic wit and remarkable freshness: a film that superficially, no longer holds the satirical -inspired entertainment, enigmatic but the question of the meaning and length of marriage provides. "