Love is the perfect crime
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Love is the perfect crime |
| Original title | L'amour est un crime parfait |
| Country of production |
France Switzerland Belgium |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Arnaud Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| script | Arnaud Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| production |
Francis Boespflug Sidonie Dumas Bruno Pésery |
| music | Caravaggio |
| camera | Guillaume Deffontaines |
| cut | Annette Dutertre |
| occupation | |
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Love is the perfect crime (Original title: L'amour est un crime parfait) is a 2013 feature film by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu (both directors and scripts). It is based on the French novel Incidentes (The Restless) by Philippe Djian (2010) and combines elements of film noir and crime films.
action
Marc teaches as a literature professor at a private university in the Alps . He leads a writing seminar, which is a compulsory course in the course. The head of literature is his colleague and competitor Richard. Marc is known for his affairs with female students. His latest affair is the fun-loving student Barbara, whom he takes with him to a chalet in the mountains that he and his sister live in. The next morning she lies dead in bed. Shortly thereafter, she is reported missing and a police investigation begins.
Marc has had an intimate, albeit open, relationship with his sister Marianne, who also works as a librarian at the university, for years. At times it is marked by jealousy and control. Richard strives for a relationship with Marc's sister Marianne. She replies that. She once speaks of sacrificing herself for her brother, whose job is at risk. At the university, Marc is also visited by Barbara's stepmother Anna, who has only recently been married to Barbara's father; her husband is working as a secret service worker in the Sahel. She hardly knows her stepdaughter and wants to know more about her. Although he is advised to keep his distance from Anna, Marc begins an affair with her, with her taking the initiative.
In addition to the affair with Anna, Marc is aggressively courted by the student Annie. She wants a private lesson with him and offers herself to him sexually openly. He makes an appointment with her, but lets her stand because otherwise Anna would have witnessed this meeting. Annie reacts angrily and her influential father forces the university administration to dismiss Marc for insulting her daughter, which is withdrawn shortly afterwards after a meeting between Richard and Marianne. At a college party, Marc is harassed by Annie and kisses her. He promises her a rendezvous and leaves early because of a severe headache. On the way home, he gets a severe nosebleed and is stopped by a police officer. The mood becomes aggressive. Marc drives to Anna and sleeps with her. On the way home he discovers the body of the policeman in the back seat of his car. He doesn't know what happened and dumps the body in a ravine in the mountains. Here he also finds Barbara's corpse, which he pushes into the depths.
During a private lesson with Annie, Marc refuses to advertise. He gets lumbago . He confesses to Annie that he is with Anna. Annie distrusts her and offers to investigate her. Shortly afterwards Anna invites Marc to a weekend vacation and he accepts. Arrived at her vacation spot, Marc receives a call from Annie. She reveals to him that Anna is actually a policewoman set on him. Marc realizes that Anna always tried to convict him of the murder of Barbara. In the holiday home by the lake, he tells Anna that he knows who she is. He reveals the location of Barbara's body, but also says that he has no memory of the crime. She makes it clear that the house is already surrounded by police officers and admits that she really loves him, but that her job is over. He promises to surrender and she leaves the house. Marc lets gas flow into the house from the gas fireplace. As a farewell to his sister Marianne, he wrote the ambiguous sentence “Love is the perfect crime”. When he lights his cigarette, there is an explosion in which he is killed.
production
Love is the perfect crime was the seventh feature film that the brothers Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu co-directed. The shooting took place at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (recordings mainly in the Rolex Learning Center ), in Demi-Quartier near Megève and in Thorens-Glières . Judith de Luze was responsible for the costumes, and Stéphane Levy designed the film .
The film premiered on September 6, 2013 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It was shown for the first time in Switzerland on October 4, 2013 at the Zurich Film Festival . From January 15, 2014 it was shown in French cinemas, where it was seen by around 365,000 viewers. The film was released on DVD in Germany in October 2014. On November 30, 2016, the German version was shown on TV for the first time on Arte .
synchronization
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Marc | Mathieu Amalric | Olaf Reichmann |
| Marianne | Karin Viard | Traudel Sparrowhawk |
| Anna | Maywenn | Katrin Decker |
| Annie Eggbaum | Sara Forestier | Josephine Schmidt |
| Richard | Denis Podalydès | Achim book |
| Barbara | Marion Duval | Celine Fontanges |
| young inspector | Damien Dorsaz | Oliver Boettcher |
Awards
At the Les Arcs European Film Festival, Jean-Marie and Arnaud Larrieu were nominated for a Flèche de Cristal in 2013. In the same year the directors were nominated for the Tokyo Grand Prix at the Tokyo International Film Festival .
Web links
- Love is the perfect crime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Release for Love is the perfect crime . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2014 (PDF; test number: 146 438 V).
- ↑ Box Office France on allocine.fr
- ↑ Love is the perfect crime in the German dubbing file