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Intimate Relations is a 1953 British drama film directed by Charles Frank and based upon the play Les Parents terribles by Jean Cocteau.[1] The film was known in the U.S. as Disobedient.[2] It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.[3]

Intimate Relations
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Directed by	Charles Frank
Written by	Charles Frank (screenplay)
Based on	the play Les Parents terribles by Jean Cocteau
Produced by	David Dent
Starring	Harold Warrender
Cinematography	Wilkie Cooper
Edited by	Peter Bezencenet
Music by	René Cloërec
Production company	David Dent Productions (as Advance)
Distributed by	Adelphi Films
Release date	March 1953 (1953-03)
Running time	86 minutes
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English

Plot

Crisis in a middle-class family when the son falls in love with his father's mistress. Family ties are stretched to breaking point, and the mother fears she'll lose her son as well as her husband.

Cast

• Harold Warrender as George
• Marian Spencer as Yvonne
• Ruth Dunning as Leonie
• William Russell as Michael (as Enoch Russell)
• Elsie Albiin as Madeline (as Elsy Albin)

Critical reception

The New York Times's review concluded "the film's highlight, one superbly conceived and well-performed scene with the father and girl at loggerheads over the boy. As we contend, the author does know better. He has perceptively hammerlocked youth and age, and until the half-way mark, the above-mentioned encounter, the quandary is genuinely intriguing. But M. Cocteau's triumphant rattling of the Oedipus legend tilts the apple cart, and some of his own dialogue provides the best summary. "What a nightmare!" moans Miss Spencer at one point. Mr. Warrender: "You're telling me" ;[4] and TV Guide wrote "the film is too talky and constricted by stage motifs. Enoch and Albiin, the mistress, do have a nice chemistry, though."[2]

References

External links

• Intimate Relations at IMDb

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