Crime scene
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crime scene |
| Original title | Le Lieu du crime |
| Country of production | France |
| original language | French |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | André Téchiné |
| script | André Téchiné, Pascal Bonitzer , Olivier Assayas |
| production | Alain Terzian |
| music | Philippe Sarde |
| camera | Pascal Marti |
| cut |
Martine Giordano , Suzanne Koch |
| occupation | |
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Scene of the crime (Original title: Le Lieu du crime ) is a French drama film directed by André Téchiné from 1986 with Catherine Deneuve in the leading role.
action
In a cemetery, 13-year-old Thomas meets an escaped convict named Martin, who threatens to demand money from him. Thomas is quite willing to get Martin the money, but he doesn't know where to get it. Since his parents divorced, he has lived with his grandparents in a small French town. His mother Lili and his father Maurice live separately, but not far away. His grandmother, who is currently preparing her grandson's communion , hopes that her daughter Lili will reconcile with Maurice. Lili still desires this. To force her to sleep with him, he threatens to stop his alimony payments and to withdraw custody of Thomas. Lili is also worried about her son. According to the chaplain of his school, Father Sorbier, Thomas' school performance and behavior have deteriorated.
Meanwhile, Thomas wants to steal his mother's money, but ultimately doesn't have the heart. He ends up chatting away the money from his grandfather when he goes fishing as usual. When Thomas brings Martin the money, his accomplice Luc tries to kill the boy. However, Martin steps in and saves Thomas' life. He fights with Luc and kills him with a knife. Then he goes to a night club for a drink. Lili, who runs the nightclub right on a river, helps him find accommodation in a local hotel. When Lili comes home, Thomas tells her about the two convicts. From Thomas' words Lili concludes that it was Martin who demanded the money from Thomas. She realizes that it was Martin who killed his accomplice when she watches Martin bury Luc's body in the cemetery with a young woman. Martin runs after Lili, but lets her go and leaves the area with the young woman who is his and Luc's lover, Alice.
However, Martin returns to the small town shortly afterwards to visit Lili in her nightclub. Both are fascinated by each other and eventually get closer. Lili decides - contrary to her mother's protests - to run away with Martin. When the news about the escape of the two convicts becomes known in town, Thomas is supposed to make a statement to the police. But before he is supposed to do this, he runs away. During a violent storm, he finds her and Martin making love in his mother's house. Confused, Thomas runs away again. Martin runs after him, but is shot by the jealous Alice. The latter in turn kills herself by crashing her sports car into a wall. Lili then makes a statement to the police and leaves the city in a police car. Thomas now lives with his father.
background
The shooting took place in the French towns of Auvillar , Castel, Clermont-Soubiran, Lizac, Montauban and Moissac . Danielle Darrieux and Catherine Deneuve have played mother and daughter several times, including in Jacques Demys Die Mädchen von Rochefort (1967) and François Ozone's hit comedy 8 Women (2002).
The scene of the crime premiered in France on May 16, 1986. In Germany, the film was first shown on television on October 29, 1988. Catherine Deneuve was voiced by Uta Hallant in the German dubbed version .
Reviews
For the lexicon of international film , the scene of the crime was "a crime film which is unsafe in its stylistic devices and which at most gains attraction through the grotesque, tragicomic drawing of the main characters". Cinema described the film as a "[k] omplexe [n] crime thriller with a Deneuve de luxe". Prisma praised the “consistently good camera work” with which “Director André Techiné looks behind the facade of a morbid provincial idyll”.
Awards
The scene of the crime took part in the 1986 competition for the Palme d'Or at the 39th Cannes International Film Festival . Danielle Darrieux received a César nomination in the Best Supporting Actress category , but was unable to prevail against Emmanuelle Béart in Manon's Revenge .
Web links
- Scene of the crime in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ crime scene. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on August 3, 2018 .
- Jump up ↑ crime scene. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 3, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. prisma.de