Criminal Lovers

Criminal Lovers

1999 · 96 min · FR · 6.7 (92 votes)
Dir. François Ozon · Starring Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Predrag 'Miki' Manojlović, Salim Kéchiouche, Yasmine Belmadi, Bernard Maume · Music Philippe Rombi

Their idea of foreplay was murder.

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After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.

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A deeply unsettling and claustrophobic descent into primal urges and desperate survival. This film is a disturbing, erotic nightmare that explores the darkest corners of desire and obsession with a relentless, psychological intensity.

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