Criminal Lovers

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Criminal Lovers ★★ Les Amants Criminels 1999

Aggressive 17-year-old Alice (Regnier) persuades her ambivalent boyfriend Luc (Renier) to kill their classmate Said, after telling Luc that Said got his friends to rape her. They drive the body into the woods to bury it but then become lost and seek refuge in a ramshackle cottage that happens to belong to a hermit (Manojlovic) who witnessed the burial. He tosses them in his cellar but soon releases Luc to satisfy his own pleasures (and those of the sexually confused boy). Eventually the duo escape, only to find the police on their trail. French with subtitles. 96m/C VHS, DVD . FR Natacha Regnier, Jeremie Renier, Miki (Predrag) Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche; D: Francois Ozon; W: Francois Ozon; C: Pierre Stoeber; M: Philippe Rombi.

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