Tender Cousins
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tender Cousins |
| Original title | Tendres cousines |
| Country of production | France / Federal Republic of Germany |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1980 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | David Hamilton |
| script | Claude d'Anna , Josiane Lévêque , Werner P. Zibaso |
| production | Véra Belmont , Hans Pflüger , Sam Waynberg |
| music | Karin Trouw |
| camera | Bernard Daillencourt |
| cut | Jean-Bernard Bonis |
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Tender Cousins is a film by British photographer David Hamilton .
action
Summer 1939 in Provence . Fourteen-year-old Julien visits his family in a small hotel in the country, including a German scientist and his daughter with them. Julien is in love with his older cousin Julia, but she ignores him. Then Charles moves in, too, who is in his twenties and courting Julia. Julien tries everything possible to reach his beloved. The daughter Liselotte of the scientist Professor Schönberg made advances to him. Then the Second World War breaks out and the men have to join the military . Now men are becoming scarce, and even Julien is becoming interesting for women. Among other things, the maid tries to seduce him, which Julien's mother prevents. Julien had his first time in the barn with another maid. Another one is seduced by him in his room and Julien has his first oral sex . Finally, Julien and Julia get together and experience a romantic day, naked in a field.
Novel
Tender Cousins is based on the novel of the same name, Pascal Lainés , published for the first time in 1979 , which was an immediate hit with audiences and was screened the following year.
The novel is mainly set in a rural castle in "Vinteuil", Île-de-France in northern France, in the summer of 1939 before the start of the Second World War. The “typically French” “savoir vivre” - French art of living - is staged. The adult life of impoverished aristocrats and their pensioners in French country estates is depicted with numerous erotic details as well as the awakening sexuality of several young people. The novel depicts an almost unclouded French idyll against a threatening background. Lainé ironizes and breaks clichés about friend and foe. For example, the German professor Schönberg, who spends his holidays there with his fun-loving daughter Liselotte, secretly experiments with the sexual energies of the holiday guests, not always to the delight of everyone, as a mixture of the bumbling, amiable Albert Einstein and a Wilhelm Reich cross-cut.
In Tender Cousins , the focus is not on a female, but rather a male, pubescent figure, Julien . The female lead actress Anja Schüte was the preferred Hamilton photo model even before her role . Rowohlt published the novel illustrated with cinema pictures in 1981.
Reviews
“Bland, viscous, confused, photographed aesthetically in the well-known David Hamilton style, underlaid with sentimental music. A film that is only conspicuous for its lack of spirit and unnerving boring. "
"Puberty snuggly [...] masterpiece by the soft-porn cuddler-photographer Hamilton."
"Soft sex film by a director with a weakness for soft focus shots."
literature
- Pascal Lainé: Affectionate cousins . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-499-14743-2 .
Web links
- Tender cousins in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tender cousins at filmportal.de