Love Is the Perfect Crime (French: L'Amour est un crime parfait) is a 2013 French-Swiss drama thriller film directed by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.[2][3]
| Love Is the Perfect Crime | |
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 French Blu-Ray disc cover | |
| Directed by | Arnaud Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| Screenplay by | Arnaud Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu |
| Based on | Incidences by Philippe Djian |
| Produced by | Francis Boespflug Sidonie Dumas Bruno Pésery |
| Starring | Mathieu Amalric Karin Viard Maïwenn Sara Forestier Denis Podalydès |
| Cinematography | Guillaume Deffontaines |
| Edited by | Annette Dutertre |
| Music by | Caravaggio |
| Distributed by | Gaumont |
Release dates |
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Running time | 111 minutes |
| Countries | France Switzerland |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $2.9 million[1] |
Plot
editMarc, who shares a remote mountain chalet with his sister, teaches literature at the polytechnic beside the lake in Lausanne and cannot resist his female students. One of them, Barbara, in the morning is found dead in his bed. When she is reported missing, the police open an enquiry and her glamorous young stepmother Anna starts her own investigation. Anna easily seduces the ever-amorous Marc, while he at the same time is unsuccessfully fending off both a sexy young student Annie and his frustrated spinster sister Marianne, who is being wooed by Richard, his head of department. But the police are closing in and Anna may not be what she appears.
Cast
edit- Mathieu Amalric as Marc
- Karin Viard as Marianne
- Maïwenn as Anna
- Sara Forestier as Annie
- Denis Podalydès as Richard
- Marion Duval as Barbara
- Damien Dorsaz as The young inspector
- Carl von Malaisé as The biker
- Pierre Maillard as M. Marinelli
Filming
editPart of the film was shot at the Learning Centre of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.[4]
References
edit- ^ "L'Amour est un crime parfait (2014)- JPBox-Office". JP Box Office. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
- ^ "Love Is the Perfect Crime". TIFF. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ (in French) Antoine Duplan, "Le loup déguisé en prof de littérature", Le Temps, Wednesday 22 January 2014, p. 22.