Movie Type: Post-Noir (Modern Noir), Psychological Drama
Themes: Love Triangles, Sibling Relationships, Dangerous Attraction
Main Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve, Laurence Côte, Benoît Magimel, Fabienne Babe, Julien Riviere
Release Year: 1996
Country: FR
Run Time: 118 minutes
MPAA Rating: R
Plot
André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as told by different people: Ivan's policeman brother Alex (Daniel Auteuil); Juliette (Laurence Côte), a young woman involved with the both brothers; and Marie (Catherine Deneuve), an unhappy philosophy professor in love with Juliette. Auteuil and Deneuve played siblings three years earlier in Téchiné's similarly rueful family drama Ma Saison Préferée. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide
