Criminal Lovers Movie Review 1999

Aggressive 17-year-old Alice (Regnier) persuades her ambivalent boyfriend Luc (Renier) to kill their classmate Said, after telling Luc that Said got his friends to rape her. They drive the body into the woods to bury it but then become lost and seek refuge in a ramshackle cottage that happens to belong to a hermit (Manojlovic) who witnessed the burial. He tosses them in his cellar but soon releases Luc to satisfy his own pleasures (and those of the sexually confused boy). Eventually the duo escape, only to find the police on their trail. French with subtitles.

Distribution

Strand Releasing, 1460 4th St., Ste. 302, Santa Monica, CA 90401, Phone: (310)395-5002, Fax: (310)395-2502, Email: strand@strandrel.com, URL: http://www.strandreleasing.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 96 minutes.
Originally from French.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Lovers on the Lam, Teen Angst, Homicide, Bisexuality, Trees & Forests, France, Flashback

Screenplay

Francois Ozon

Cast

Natacha Regnier, Jeremie Renier, Miki (Predrag) Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche

Cinematography

Pierre Stoeber

Director

Francois Ozon

Music

Philippe Rombi

Other

Benoit Hillebrant, Francois Guillaume, Dominique Petrot, Arnaud de Moleron, Pascaline Chavanne

Producer

Olivier Delbosc, Marc Missonnier, Fidelite Productions, Strand Releasing