Love Is the Perfect Crime

2013 film

6 September 2013 (2013-09-06) (TIFF)
4 October 2013 (2013-10-04) (Switzerland)
15 January 2014 (2014-01-15) (France)

Running time

111 minutesCountriesFrance
SwitzerlandLanguageFrenchBox office$2.9 million^[1]

Love Is the Perfect Crime (French: L'Amour est un crime parfait) is a 2013 French-Swiss drama thriller film directed by Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu. It was screened in the Special Presentation section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.^[2]^[3]

Plot

Marc, who shares a remote mountain chalet with his sister, teaches literature at the polytechnic beside the lake in Lausanne and cannot resist his female students. One of them, Barbara, in the morning is found dead in his bed. When she is reported missing, the police open an enquiry and her glamorous young stepmother Anna starts her own investigation. Anna easily seduces the ever-amorous Marc, while he at the same time is unsuccessfully fending off both a sexy young student Annie and his frustrated spinster sister Marianne, who is being wooed by Richard, his head of department. But the police are closing in and Anna may not be what she appears.

Cast

Mathieu Amalric as Marc
Karin Viard as Marianne
Maïwenn as Anna
Sara Forestier as Annie
Denis Podalydès as Richard
Marion Duval as Barbara
Damien Dorsaz as The young inspector
Carl von Malaisé as The biker
Pierre Maillard as M. Marinelli

Filming

Part of the film was shot at the Learning Centre of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.^[4]

References

^ "L'Amour est un crime parfait (2014)- JPBox-Office". JP Box Office. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
^ "Love Is the Perfect Crime". TIFF. Archived from the original on 30 August 2013. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ "Toronto Adds 75+ Titles To 2013 Edition". Indiewire. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
^ (in French) Antoine Duplan, "Le loup déguisé en prof de littérature", Le Temps, Wednesday 22 January 2014, p. 22.