love is the perfect crime (l'amour est un crime parfait) 2013 region free dvd5 french bcbc

Love Is the Perfect Crime (French: L'Amour est un crime parfait) is a 2013 French-Swiss drama thriller film directed by Arnaud Larrieu and Jean-Marie Larrieu. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.

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Synopsis

Marc, who shares a remote mountain chalet with his sister, teaches literature at the polytechnic beside the lake in Lausanne and cannot resist his female students. One of them, Barbara, in the morning is found dead in his bed. When she is reported missing, the police open an enquiry and her glamorous young stepmother Anna starts her own investigation. Anna easily seduces the ever-amorous Marc, while he at the same time is unsuccessfully fending off both a sexy young student Annie and his frustrated spinster sister Marianne, who is being wooed by Richard, his head of department. But the police are closing in and Anna may not be what she appears.



Cast

Mathieu Amalric as Marc

Karin Viard as Marianne

Maïwenn as Anna

Sara Forestier as Annie

Denis Podalydès as Richard

Marion Duval as Barbara

Damien Dorsaz as The young inspector

Carl von Malaisé as The biker

Pierre Maillard as M. Marinelli



Love Is the Perfect Crime

Directed by Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu

A mesmerizing psychological thriller set in the majestic Swiss Alps.

Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat

Love Is the Perfect Crime is a mesmerizing psychological thriller set in the Swiss Alps and directed by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu; it is based on the novel Incidences by Philippe Dijan. This French-Swiss production will have special appeal to those who are fascinated by the classic film noir drama. The chilly wintery landscape provides an appropriate setting for a crime, and the glass and steel structure of Lausanne University is a perfect theatre for the sexual antics of the lead character.



Marc (Mathieu Amalric) is a professor of creative writing who in his spare time enjoys seducing and abandoning numerous female students. He is a seasoned Don Juan who loves the hunt and the pleasure of sex. After he has a brief affair with Barbara (Marion Duval), a lusty student who has had fantasies of making love to her professor, she mysteriously disappears. Marc admits to having been with her but claims to know nothing about her whereabouts. A casual and laid-back investigator keeps pestering Marc and succeeds in making him irritable.



Soon the jaunty professor seems to be jangled by everyone around him. His odd relationship with his sister Marianne (Karin Viard), who enjoys flirting with him, suddenly becomes less predictable after she dates Richard (Denis Podalydes), the head of Marc's department. Annie (Sara Forestier), a rich student with a prominent father, presses Marc to have sex with her as part of a series of "private lessons." When he refuses, even more troubles pile up around him.



As directors, the Larrrieu brothers draw out a captivating and nuanced performance from Mathieu Amalric as the besieged Don Juan. His complicated relationship with Anna (Maiwenn), the missing student's unhappily married stepmother, keeps us entranced during the second half of the drama. At first, Marc views her as just another conquest, but then the relationship turns into something he never imagined to be possible.



After viewing this thriller, you will want to spend some time exploring the multiple meanings of the title "Love Is the Perfect Crime."