Rent Criminal Lovers (1999)
3.0 of 5 from 84 ratings
1h 32min
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- Synopsis:
Once upon a time in a Paris suburb, there lived a teenage girl named Alice, a pretty girl who liked to play games of seduction and violence. One day, Alice decided to killSaid, a handsome and cocky classmate. But she couldn't possibly do it alone, so Alice manipulated her naive new boyfriend Luc into committing the cold-blooded crime as proof of his true love for her. It wasn't as easy as Alice had expected. Murder can be messy and so tiresome. Alice thought she had carefully planned everything. But a life of true crime can be filled with many difficulties. Alice and Luc go to the forest to bury Said, but they get lost and find a boat that carries them deeper into the woods, and to the home of a lonely woodsman. ice and Luc soon discover that life is no fairytale. - Actors:
- Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Miki Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Maume, Jean-Louis Debard, Catherine Vierne, Marielle Coubaillon, Olivier Papot, Gil Demurger, Agnès Accaria, Ranzi Adjeri, Brigitte Albuquerque, Martihino Albuquerque
- Directors:
- François Ozon
- Writers:
- François Ozon, Marcia Romano
- Aka:
- Les amants criminels
- Studio:
- Millivres Multimedia
- Genres:
- Horror, Thrillers
- Collections:
- A Brief History of Pantomime Stories on Film: Part 2, A Brief History of Film..., The Instant Expert's Guide to François Ozon
- Countries:
- France
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Spoilers follow ... - Criminal Lovers review by NP
Alice and Luc (Natacha Régnier) and (Jérémie Renier), having committed a murder, (of Said, played by Salim Kechiouche) go on the run. The pair of them are, as you may imagine, perverse, but not always logical in their perversity.
In this French film, the two impetuous youngsters bury the deceased Said in a forest, get lost and take refuge in a cottage, where a hermit called Karim takes a fancy to Luc and has an intense dislike for Alice. From here, events become less and less predictable and more and more grimly enjoyable.
The meaning behind this curious tale is open to interpretation. There is a certain adult fairy-tale quality to it. The location and atmosphere have a story-book flavour. 'Criminal Lovers’ is odd and unfathomable, unyielding and tremendously well-acted.
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