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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780780022126
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 0780022122
Label: Home Vision
Manufacturer: Home Vision
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Home Vision
Release Date: August 24, 1999
Running Time: 95 minutes
Sales Rank: 34366
Studio: Home Vision
Theatrical Release Date: July 25, 1976
Editorial Review:
Description:
Ludovic (Victor Lanoux) and Marthe (Marie-Christine Barrault, My Night at Maud's) are introduced as cousins during a wedding that joins their mutual families. The new cousins realize they have much in common when their spouses steal away with one
Amazon.com:
One of the first, and most successful, French export comedies, Cousin Cousine garnered a Best Actress Oscar nomination for Marie-Christine Barrault, an international audience for director Jean- Charles Tacchella, and a substantial, surprising haul at American box offices in late 1975 and early '76. Retrospectively, it's not difficult to understand why: Barrault and costar Victor Lanoux prove themselves to be adept, protean comic actors, and Tacchella's breezy pacing makes the witty, gag-laden script crackle with frenetic verve. Barrault and Lanoux play cousins (by marriage only; it isn't quite that French) drawn together when their respective partners are caught philandering. Their initial friendship quickly blossoms into something altogether more scandalous. The narrative, framed by weddings, funerals, and other family get-togethers, feels surprisingly modern in its choice of milieu; indeed, recent comedies such as Four Weddings and a Funeral and My Best Friend's Wedding owe a substantial debt to the whimsical tone of Cousin Cousine. More Hollywood than Cannes, it's perhaps unsurprising that Tacchella's comedy was recently remade into Cousins (1989), an intermittently amusing Ted Danson vehicle with occasional resemblances to its vastly superior predecessor. --Miles Bethany
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Top-Notch Movie Brimming With Fun and Laughter !
I saw this movie, many years ago, on a cable network, and I can honestly say that its my favorite foreign (french) film - no doubt. I would love to buy this movie if only I could get my hands on an English-dubbed version, like the one I saw all these many years ago. If I want to read.... I'll open a book. The chemistry between the leads was pure magic, and the supporting cast provided just the right spark. I would very much like to see this movie again and again.... but ONLY the English-dubbed ... Read More
Rating: - Very Cool.....Marie-France Pisier is Especially Good
If you have a playful sense of humor and enjoy films with an early Fellini (celebration of life-quirky characters) flavor, you should make it a point to watch "Cousin Cousine". Released in 1975, on the surface this is just an off-beat love story about two middle-aged "cousins-by marriage" who are drawn to each other by a shared playfulness. These kindred spirits awaken in each other a zestful and irreverent attitude toward life that distances them from their large (and somewhat strange) extended family. ... Read More
Rating: - Love and honesty
It begins at a wedding where two unhappily married step-cousins meet. They begin a friendship, very platonic, spending a lot of time together. They enjoy being together and decide not to have sex in order to remain honest with their spouses and other relatives. But of course everyone thinks they're having sex, so our couple decides, since everyone thinks they are, they might as well. The movie ends on Christmas Eve with them locked in a bedroom all night while the families celebrate and stew over what's ... Read More
Rating: - Charming and wry.
Two entirely likeable people are suffering because of the infidelities of their respective mates until they find each other. Warm, charming and very life affirming.
Rating:  - Don't waste your time
As much as I like foreign films and reading reviews. I was misled by positive reviews for this movie. The thought of calling adultery carried out in front of one's children "an easy to take comedy" like Leonard Maltin stated is baloney. I didn't like any of the actors nor their characters and neither of the two main leads were very attractive. The U.S. folks in 1976 that went to the movies must have wanted encouragement to start an affair, so they probably saw this and said - hey if it's natural for the ... Read More
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