Criminal Lovers
Criminal Lovers (French title: Les Amants criminels) is a 1999 psychological thriller film by French director François Ozon.[1]
Synopsis
High school student Alice (Natacha Régnier) convinces her boyfriend and lover, Luc (Jérémie Renier), to murder their classmate Saïd (Salim Kechiouche), whom she was having an affair with, and whom she claims raped her. When they dispose of his body in the woods late one night, the couple get lost on their way back to their car and are taken in by a mysterious old man and hermit (Miki Manojlović).[2] However, matters take a bizarre twist when the stranger locks the young lovers in his cellar along with the dead body of Saïd and reveals that he plans to eat them. The stranger harnesses Luc and convinces for sex. He finally gives Luc an option to survive with his girlfriend (Alice), Luc finally shares bed with stranger and gets away from the forest without killing the hermit.
When the couple comes out of forest they find the police near their car and the police comes to know about their murder and the strange hermit also gets arrested, apparently after Saïd's body is found. Luc gets arrested as he gets caught in a bear trap, and Alice tries to run away but is eventually caught and killed by the police. In the final sequence the apprehended Luc attempts to stop the police who are beating the forester up, but in vain. In despair and anguish, Luc is carried to the city in the police car, ending the film.
References
- ^ Hebron, Sandra. "Criminal Lovers (Les amants criminels)". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
- ^ Tobias, Scott (19 April 2002). "DVD Review: Criminal Lovers". AVClub. Retrieved 24 November 2019.
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