Criminal Lovers
6.2 /10 1 Votes
64% Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller Initial release August 18, 1999 (France) Running time 1h 36m Screenplay Francois Ozon | 6.6/10 59% Metacritic Duration Director Francois Ozon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Francois Ozon (scenario and dialogue), Marcia Romano (scenario interventions), Annabelle Perrichon (scenario interventions), Arthur Rimbaud (poem), Marina de Van (poem), Francois Ozon (poem) Cast (Alice), (Luc), Predrag Miki Manojlovi? (L'homme de la forêt), (Saïd), (Karim), Bernard Maume (Le professeur)Similar movies Related Francois Ozon movies |
Criminal Lovers (French title: Les Amants Criminels) is a 1999 psychological thriller film by French director François Ozon.
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Synopsis

High school student Alice (Natacha Régnier) convinces her lover, Luc (Jérémie Renier), to murder their classmate Saïd (Salim Kechiouche), 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 hermit (Miki Manojlović). However, matters take a bizarre twist when the stranger locks the young lovers in his basement 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 his rapist. 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. Luc gets arrested as he gets caught into a bear trap, and Alice tries to run away and finally she gets shot by police. In the final sequence the apprehended Luc attempts to stop the police who are beating the forester up but all in vain. He is carried to the city in the police car.





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