The Cousin

The Cousin (Italian: La cugina, same meaning but with feminine expressed) is a 1974 Italian drama film by the director Aldo Lado, with a score by Ennio Morricone. From a novel by Ercole Patti, it tells the coming of age stories of a group of young people in Sicily in the 1950s.[1][2]

For other uses, see Cousin (disambiguation).
The Cousin
Directed byAldo Lado
Written byLuisa Montagnana
Massimo Franciosa
from the novel by Ercole Patti
Produced byFelice Testa Gay
StarringMassimo Ranieri
Dayle Haddon
Christian De Sica
CinematographyGábor Pogány
Edited byAlberto Galletti
Music byEnnio Morricone
Production
company
Testa Gay Cinematografica
Distributed byUnidis
Release date
26 July 1974
Running time
92 minutes
CountryItaly
LanguageItalian

Summary

Like other young bourgeois men, Enzo learns about sex with servants, whores and married women. None excite him like his alluring cousin Agata, who has tantalised him with erotic games since childhood. Her ambition, however, is to keep her virginity and make an advantageous marriage. She sets her sights on Nini, amiable but dim, who is a nobleman and has a country estate. To force his hand, a venal priest arranges a fake abduction and then marries the pair. Now baroness and mistress of a vast palazzo, she discovers that her precious virginity was wasted on Nini, who is uninterested in marital sex. When a proud Enzo comes round to tell the two that he has graduated, she gives herself to him at last.

Production

In an interview published in 2005 the director said the story of the original novel was altered so that the erotic tension between the two cousins gradually intensified up to the time of their final encounter. When filming it, he and his cinematographer decided to alternate between normal time and slow motion: “What I wanted to convey was that for them at that moment time as we know it had ceased to exist.”[3]

Cast

References
  1. (it)"CinemaItaliano". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  2. (fr)"Iken-Eiga". Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. "Percorsi alternativi (Controcorrente 2) Guida al cinema di Aldo Lado", Nocturno Dossier (30), January 2005
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