Womaniser Mark works as a professor of literature at the Swiss University of Lausanne. He divides his time between lecture halls filled with willing female students, the remote mountain hut he inhabits with his dominant, eccentric sister and seductive adventures. When one day an attractive student disappears without trace, Mark's problems start. The girl's stepmother visits the campus to investigate her disappearance and the net starts to close around the professor.
Set against the blinding wintry Alps, this latest film by the Larrieu brothers (La brèche de Roland, 2000) sketches an exciting and comic portrait of a man with two faces whose life derails at high speed. A psychological thriller based on the book Incidences by Philippe Djian, filled with morbid humour and light-hearted references to the work of Hitchcock. With leading roles for Larrieu favourite Mathieu Amalric and actress and filmmaker Maïwenn.
- Directors
- Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu
- Countries of production
- France, Switzerland
- Year
- 2013
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 111'
- Medium
- DCP
- International title
- Love Is the Perfect Crime
- Language
- French
- Producers
- Sébastien Delloye, Bruno Pésery
- Production Companies
- ARENA Productions, Entre Chien et Loup
- Sales
- Gaumont
- Screenplay
- Jean-Marie Larrieu, Arnaud Larrieu, based on the novel Incidences by Phillippe Djian
- Cinematography
- Guillaume Deffontaines
- Editor
- Annette Dutertre
- Production Design
- Stéphane Lévy
- Sound Design
- Olivier Mauvezin
- Music
- Caravaggio
- Cast
- Mathieu Amalric, Karin Viard
- Local Distributor
- De Filmfreak
- Website
- http://gaumont.fr/fr/film/L-amour-est-un-crime-parfait.html