Les Enfants Terribles, Jean Cocteau;
"The story is, of course, about adolescence but it is also about obsession and living when cut off from the world. The famous snowball scene has Dargelos throwing a snowball at Paul. Dargelos is the tough, masculine hero but also, at least for Cocteau, someone to whom he could be attracted sexually. Dargelos seems to injure Paul and Paul is taken home. At home, where his mother is dying, he shares a room with his sister, Elisabeth. Cocteau's portrait of the brother and sister is masterful. They love each other. They hate each other. All the time, they are either bickering at one another or loving one another. While Paul is ill - he has to leave school - Elisabeth looks after him. The situation is complicated as Dargelos falls in love with Elisabeth and half moves in with them, particularly when his uncle (with whom he lives) is away on business. The death of their mother changes nothing. But still they bicker, still they love one another."