The Strange Ones

A love story by Jean Cocteau

A dreamlike, psychologically complex portrait of incestuous sibling obsession and isolation, told with Cocteau's characteristic poetic strangeness and melancholic ambiguity.

Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure up a hermetic dream of their own making. Their relationship, however, isn't exactly wholesome. Jealousy and a malevolent undercurrent intrude on their fantasy when Elisabeth invites the strange Agathe to stay with them -- and Paul is immediately attracted to her.