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Criminal Lovers

Country: France, Language: French, 96 mins

Original Title

Les Amants Criminels
  • Director: François Ozon
  • Writer: Marina de Van; François Ozon
  • Producer: Olivier Delbosc; Marc Missonnier

CGiii Comment

Innocence lost in the most horrid way.

Ozon definitely knows how to manipulate...a stylish, superbly played story. He directs with pristine tension.

Why does he insist on doing comedies? This is what he does best.


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The(ir) Blurb...

The movie begins with an explicit murder scene. We later learn high school student Alice (Natacha Régnier) convinced her lover, Luc (Jérémie Renier), to murder their classmate Saïd (Salim Kechiouche), whom she claims raped her with a group of his friends. After the murder they take Luc's parents' car and go off to rob a jewelry store. When they dispose of the body in the woods, the couple get lost on their way back to their car and are captured by a mysterious forest dweller (Miki Manojlovic). Matters take an even more bizarre twist when the stranger locks the young lovers in his basement and reveals that he plans to eat them. The movie shows the events that led up to the murder of their classmate and the ordeals the two lovers undergo in the cabin. Alice is very sexually active, but Luc is still a virgin. Sometimes it feels like a bizarre twist of Grimm's "Hansel and Gretel" in true François Ozon style.

Cast & Characters

Natacha Régnier as Alice;
Jérémie Renier as Luc;
Miki Manojlovic as L'homme de forêt;
Salim Kechiouche as Saïd;
Yasmine Belmadi as Karim;
Bernard Maume as Le professeur;
Jean-Louis Debard as Le gardien de nuit;
Catherine Vierne as La vendeuse de bijoux;
Marielle Coubaillon as L'hôtesse du supermarché;
Olivier Papot as Le policier;
Gil Demurger as Le GIGN