Love Is the Perfect Crime

Love Is the Perfect Crime
French Blu-Ray disc cover
Directed by	Arnaud Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu
Screenplay by	Arnaud Larrieu Jean-Marie Larrieu
Based on	Incidences by Philippe Djian
Produced by	Francis Boespflug Sidonie Dumas Bruno Pésery
Starring	Mathieu Amalric Karin Viard Maïwenn Sara Forestier Denis Podalydès
Cinematography	Guillaume Deffontaines
Edited by	Annette Dutertre
Music by	Caravaggio
Distributed by	Gaumont
Release dates	6 September 2013 (2013-09-06) (TIFF) 4 October 2013 (2013-10-04) (Switzerland) 15 January 2014 (2014-01-15) (France)
Running time	111 minutes
Countries	France Switzerland
Language	French
Box office	$2.9 million

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.

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.

External links

• Love Is the Perfect Crime at IMDb