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Criminal Lovers
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama
Written by: François Ozon
Directed by: François Ozon
Release Date:
Theatrical: July 21, 2000
DVD: August 14, 2001
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: France
Language(s): French (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Natacha Régnier, Jérémie Renier, Miki Manojlovic, Salim Kechiouche, and Yasmine Belmadi
A grisly story in which teenager Alice convinces her boyfriend Luc to kill the man who orchestrated her rape. The two become lost while disposing of the body in the woods and fall into the hands of a hermit who takes them captive.
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What The Critics Said
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San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris
In Criminal Lovers, the "Bonnie and Clyde" model of killing-as-erotica gets a shrewd, funny, decidedly French workout.
Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Both the leads are scarily good, and Ozon imbues his troubling tale with jarring blasts of light and the sun-dappled beauty of the natural world.
Film.com Ernest Hardy
Has its own sense of logic and integrity that demand a kind of begrudged respect.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
May be as gimmicky as Ozon's other features, but it's also more resonant and even haunting.
Read Full Review >New York Post Jonathan Foreman
Francois Ozon, perhaps France's hottest director of the moment, is often better creating stylish visuals than dramatically credible situations, but Criminal Lovers is never boring.
New York Daily News Jami Bernard
"Grimm's Fairy Tales" were pretty grim, but Criminal Lovers crosses the line and sexualizes your worst fears.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
Imagine "Hansel and Gretel" by way of "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre."
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
Such an amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories that it never develops a life of its own.
Read Full Review >Mr. Showbiz Michael Atkinson
At once arch, derivative, and, in the end, bizarrely lyrical.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's a passionate vision thick with eroticism, but the musky atmosphere gets a little thick and murky.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Bob Graham
Straddles a number of genres -- horror film, lovers on the lam, fairy tale -- and gives them all a cool, knowing spin.
Read Full Review >Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Its eventual failure to make sense indicates that it's intended more as a surrealistic fable than an ordinary sex-and-violence adventure.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
This remains the one and only fusion of ''Deliverance'' and ''Hansel and Gretel'' that I ever hope to see.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Edward R. gave it a9:
This is a great movie. Completely unpredictable, thoroughly mesmerizing, jam-packed with homages and metaphors, and highly sexual. Francois Ozon shows his French brilliance.
