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Genealogies of a Crime (1998)
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Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 4
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 1 hr 53 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: Raoul Ruiz's GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME is based on the case of Hermine van Hug, a 1920s psychoanalyst who believed that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer... Raoul Ruiz's GENEALOGIES OF A CRIME is based on the case of Hermine van Hug, a 1920s psychoanalyst who believed that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer before he reached adolescence. The nephew proved her right by strangling her. The always compelling Catherine Deneuve plays Solange, a lawyer who loses every case she represents and nevertheless decides to represent the young accused killer. Ruiz's film is an intelligent, darkly comic meditation on family, free will, and the nature of the criminal mind. [More]
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Monique Melinand, Hubert Saint-Macary, Jean-Yves Gautier, Mathieu Amalric, Jean Badin, Jean Pieiller
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Director: Raoul Ruiz
Screenwriter: Raoul Ruiz, Pascal Bonitzer
Producer: Paulo Branco
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Reviews for Genealogies of a Crime
I found the film's mystery strangely compelling, no doubt helped by Deneuve's radiant presence.
Elegantly creepy one minute and cheerfully absurdist the next, Genealogies of a Crime is lively and inventive, suggesting that there is more going on here than meets the eye.
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