Rubax Video - Criminal Lovers (1999) Blu-ray

Their idea of foreplay was murder. An outrageously twisted psycho-sexual fairy tale.

After a perverted impulse drives two high school teenagers, Alice (Natacha Régnier) and Luc (Jérémie Renier) to commit a vicious murder of their classmate Saïd (Salim Kechiouche), they drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost - much like the fairytale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, they chance upon a dilapidated cottage where a hulking l'homme des bois (Predrag 'Miki' Manojlovic) takes them prisoner and proceeds to feed the virgin Luc's sexual appetite.

One of the most exciting gay filmmakers today, François Ozon has made a name for himself in modern cinema for being more daring and more inventive than most directors would dare to be, and Criminal Lovers is a film that belongs towards the top of his already impressive list of director's credits. It's a bizarre twist of the classic Grimm's Hansel and Gretel tale, fused with the "criminals on the run" theme of which such earlier films such as Badlands and Natural Born Killers utilized so well. Typically for Ozon, there is more to the film than just what its plot presents and with this common theme the modern-day genius has put together a multi-layered work of art, that will be seen differently by whoever sees it.

French with EN Sub.