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Criminal Lovers

Les amants criminels

1999

François Ozon

Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Rénier, Miki Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, Yasmine Belmadi

6.2

906

Drama. Thriller In a small french provincial town, two teenagers, Luc and Alice, decide to commit a murder and assassinate a classmate, Saïd. They escape straight to bury the corpse in a forest where they meet a man leading a cloistered life...

	Author	Review
United States	Lisa Nesselson Variety	"Despite his flair for perverse and unsettling juxtapositions, Ozon can’t quite make a go of this ambitious conceit."	NEU
United States	Scott Tobias AV Club	"Ozon flaunts the seductive nastiness on which he's made his reputation."	POS
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"[It] is such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own (...) It's one of those cases where the director trips over his own brains"	NEG
United States	Stephen Garrett IndieWire	"Ravishingly photographed and conceived, [it] has undeniably arresting moments of cinematic poetry that reaffirm Ozon as one of the most promising and original talents currently working in France."	POS
United Kingdom	Neil Smith BBC	"Part Hansel and Gretel, part 'Blair Witch Project', 'Criminal Lovers' is an unsettling, subversive thriller that combines sadism, cannibalism, and homoeroticism to increasingly delirious effect (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Paul Tatara CNN	"Ozon generates a unique, consistently disquieting vibe (...) It's just that he's more interested in titillating or mortifying the viewer than he is in making a salient point."	NEU

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