Les Enfants Terribles is a play by Cocteau [1], not particularly very good. A movie, not bad but also far from being a masterpiece, has been adapted from it [2]. Although it was directed by Melville, apparently Cocteau blew it by imposing his lover of the time for the character of Paul, to the worst effect.
The theme inspired Philip Glass who wrote a wonderful opera about it, Children of the game, which is the reason of my interest for this work.
Glass wrote a stunning masterpiece that fits perfectly the piece. I don't want to write much about it now, I just want to share this excerpt of Scene 17, Are you in Love, Agathe?
that is such an inspiration for me, it shows that however poor or dull you can find something, there's always a way to look at it the way Glass looks at this discussion between Paul and Lise, when the tension tips on its maximum, and everything is on the point of collapsing onto its fate.