Les Voleurs Movie Review 1996

Unexpected romantic triangle among desperate, lonely people, set against a crime backdrop and told from a variety of viewpoints. Edgy cop Alex (Auteuil) is from a family of thieves, including his older brother Ivan (Bezace) who's been murdered. Alex gets involved with sullen Juliette (Cote) without realizing, at first, that her brother Jimmy (Magimel) is a member of Ivan's gang or that she has another lover, her philosophy teacher, Marie (Deneuve). Events finally force a meeting between Marie and Alex over the unstable Juliette (the scenes between Auteuil and Deneuve being the most interesting in the film). French with subtitles.

Distribution

Sony Pictures Home Video, Sony Pictures Plz., 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232, Phone: (310)244-7306, Fax: (310)280-2485, URL: http://www.spe.sony.com, Remarks: Formerly Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment

Available on VHS
Running time 116 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Romantic Triangles, Flashback, Brothers & Sisters, Lesbians, Only the Lonely, Cops

Screenplay

Andre Techine, Gilles Taurand

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Laurence Cote, Benoit Magimel, Didier Bezace, Fabienne Babe, Ivan Desny, Julien Riviere

Cinematography

Jeanne Lapoirie

Director

Andre Techine

Music

Philippe Sarde

Producer

Alain Sarde, BAC Films Ltd., Sony Pictures Classics