A Crime in Paradise
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Directed by | Jean Becker |
Written by | Sebastien Japrisot Jean Becker based on La Poison by Sacha Guitry |
Produced by | Christian Fechner |
Starring | Jacques Villeret Josiane Balasko André Dussollier |
Cinematography | Jean-Marie Dreujou |
Edited by | Jacques Witta |
Music by | Pierre Bachelet |
Distributed by | UGC Fox Distribution |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $11.9 million |
Box office | $13.9 million[1] |
A Crime in Paradise (French: Un crime au paradis) is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Jean Becker, adapted by Sebastien Japrisot from the story by Sacha Guitry, and starring Jacques Villeret and Josiane Balasko. The scenario was used on the film La Poison (1951).
Plot[]
1980, in a rural village in the Lyon region, Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost. Joseph Poacher ("Jojo") and his wife Lucienne ("Lulu"), a nagging shrew and inveterate alcoholic, lead a married life for the less confrontational, in their farm located in a place called "Paradise". One day, Jojo watches a story on television about a brilliant lawyer who has just achieved his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo will seeks the lawyer out. He tells her he killed his wife even though he hasn't actually yet done so. By a set of very clever questions, is explaining how he would have had to make to be pretty sure to get the extenuating circumstances. Jojo in then returns to "Paradise" and begins to organize, as directed by the lawyer, the staging of the "perfect crime".
Cast[]
- Jacques Villeret as Jojo Braconnier
- Josiane Balasko as Lulu Braconnier
- André Dussollier as Lawyer Jacquard
- Suzanne Flon as Mistress
- Gérard Hernandez as Jacky
- as The coffee's owner
- Valérie Mairesse as Magali
- Jacques Dacqmine as President Laborde
- Dominique Lavanant as Mlle Goudilleux
- Jean Dell as Judge Frégard
- Daniel Prévost as Lawyer Miramont
- as Madame Bertrand
- Cécile Vassort as Madame Ramirez
- as Briscot
- as Jacky Lévêque
- as Mr. Doucet
- Christine Delaroche as Jacquard's assistant
- as The dealer in notions
- as Officer of police station
- as The substitute
References[]
- ^ "Un crime au paradis (2001)". . Retrieved 2001-02-28.
External links[]
- 2001 films
- French-language films
- French films
- French comedy-drama films
- 2001 comedy-drama films
- Films based on works by Sacha Guitry
- Films directed by Jean Becker
- Films set in 1980
- Remakes of French films
- 2000s French film stubs