The Perfect Crime (El Crimen Perfecto)(Crimen ferpecto) (2004)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 8
If you like your comedies wicked and pitch-black, El Crimen Perfecto delivers without flinching.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 21
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 5
If you like your comedies wicked and pitch-black, El Crimen Perfecto delivers without flinching.
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A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain. Rafael (Guillermo Toledo) is a self-styled ladies' man working at an upscale department store in Madrid. Rafael thinks of himself as suave and sophisticated, and he has two goals -- to run the store's apparel department, and to seduce every woman he works with. Well, every woman except for one -- Lourdes (Monica Cervera), a homely sales clerk who
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Guillermo Toledo
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Mónica Cervera
Lourdes -
Luis Varela
Don Antonio -
Tejada Enrique Villen
Inspector Campoy -
Fernando Tejero
Alonso -
Kira Miro
Roxanne -
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All Critics (60) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (45) | Rotten (8) | DVD (5)
A story that begins as farce but that evolves into something approaching satirical profundity.
Top CriticThis Spanish-language romp is a delightful send-up of retail culture, movie thrillers and the eternal 'ladies' man' facing his just deserts.
My advice is to choose the first half, where things are really funny until they aren't.
An outrageous comedy of errors set at a Madrid department store.
An astute satire on the boundlessness of unchecked sexual fetishism and power.
It plays like one of those minor European oddball comedies of the 1970s ... neither realistic nor particularly clever but making up for that with a certain charm.
An outburst of filmic inventiveness and a nicely convoluted plot with elements of outright fantasy, nearly all of which works.
Scattered clever moments do not a good dark comedy make.
Long on outrageous style but short on real laughs.
Toledo is hilarious as Rafael.
Shrug off the shaky philosophy and instead savor the film's snarkier elements.
[J]ust cuz a movie has subtitles doesn't make it deep or meaningful or even worth your time...
If twisted noir novelist Jim Thompson had scripted the Jerry Lewis vehicle 'Who's Minding the Store?,' the result might have been something like this...
The Perfect Crime is an outrageous fiesta of decadence.
A worthwhile and fairly amusing effort.
A well%u2013oiled machine of wit, sex and violence, as darkly funny as the Coen Bros. (almost) and as visually interesting as Tarantino (almost).
De la Iglesia is a mercilessly agile talent, turning his department store into its own little film-noir cityscape, only with better lighting and perfume samples.
It's dark, well-paced fun, even as it sags from the over-eager absurdities de la Iglesia layers onto the well-established formula.
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Foreign Titles
- Crimen ferpecto - Ein ferpektes Verbrechen (DE)
- The Perfect Crime (Crimen ferpecto) (UK)
