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Les Amants criminels
FRANCE · 1999

Les Amants criminels

François Ozon
dark fairy tale retelling captivity and imprisonment sexual manipulation murder and crime lost in the woods
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Synopsis

After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking man takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed Luc's sexual appetite.

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