Main Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Wadeck Stanczak, Nicolas Giraudi, Danielle Darrieux, Victor Lanoux
Release Year: 1986
Country: FR
Run Time: 90 minutes
Plot
Scene of the Crime (Le Lieu du Crime) begins with a quote from Great Expectations. Thirteen-year-old Nicolas Giraudi, picking flowers in a cemetery, is surprised by escaped criminal Wadeck Stanczak, who orders the boy to bring him some money. Displaying no signs of fear, Giraudi does what he is told, and as a "reward" his life is spared by the convict. Later on, Stanczak gets stinking drunk at a road house managed by Giraudi's mother, Catherine Deneuve. Fascinated by Stanczak, Deneuve arranges for the fugitive to take a room at a local hotel. On the day that Giraudi is to receive his first communion, his mother plans to run off with Stanczak. The climactic set-to between criminals and police has the negatory effect of separating Giraudi from his mother; on a more positive note, however, the boy has been drawn closer to his father Victor Lanoux, whom Deneuve despised. The dreamlike, new wave-ish Scene of the Crime is a lot more complex than this skeletal synopsis would suggest. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Jean Bousquet - Grandfather; Claire Nebout - Alice; Jacques Nolot - Father Sorbier; Jean-Claude Adelin - Christine Paolini; Christine Paolini; Philippe Landoulsi; Michel Grimaud
Credit
Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko - Art Director, Caroline de Vivaise - Costume Designer, Christian Gasc - Costume Designer, André Téchiné - Director, Martine Giordano - Editor, Suzanne Koch - Editor, Philippe Sarde - Composer (Music Score), Ronaldo Ribeiro de Abreu - Makeup, Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko - Production Designer, Pascal Marti - Cinematographer, Francoise Galfre - Production Manager, Alain Terzian - Producer, Georges Demetreau - Special Effects, Pierre Foury - Special Effects, Jean-Louis Ughetto - Sound/Sound Designer, Olivier Assayas - Screenwriter, Pascal Bonitzer - Screenwriter, André Téchiné - Screenwriter
