DVD Features:
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Released: July 14, 2009
- Originally Released: 1986
- Label: Koch Lorber Films
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- NTSC
- Packaging: Keep Case
- Audio:
- Mono - French
- Subtitles - English
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Major Awards:
Cannes 1986 -
Best Actor: Michel Blanc
Entertainment Reviews:
New York Times - 10/01/1986
"...The kinds of buoyantly kaleidoscopic changes one might associate with a fairy tale. It's an extraordinarily spry and witty film..."
New York Times - 12/28/1986
Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1986"
Product Description:
A roguish burglar, thoroughly disrupts the lives of an impoverished couple, sexually and otherwise.
Product Description:
Bob, a seductive, bisexual thief, entices Antoine and Monique, a bored and dissatisfied couple, into joining him as he robs wealthy homes. Turned on by the thrill of thievery, the couple soon abandons their world of middle-class predictability and a bizarre love triangle develops between the three in this darkly comedic sex caper. Starring Gerard Depardieu, Michel Blanc and Miou-Miou.
Plot Synopsis:
A petty thief pushes his way into the lives of an unhappily married couple, and irrevocably changes their world.
Bob, a self-confident, blustering criminal, meets Antoine and Monique at a restaurant and offers to help them get over their recent run of bad luck. But he has an ulterior motive: he'd very much like to seduce Antoine. Although Antoine initially resists Bob's flirtations, before too long he finds himself succumbing to the other man's charms...
Plot Keywords:
Bisexuality |
Crime |
Theatrical Release
Production Notes:
- Screened at both the Cannes Film Festival and at the New York Film Festival in 1986.
- Bertrand Blier originally wrote the role of Antoine for the actor Patrick Dewaere, who starred with Depardieu in Blier's "Going Places." Sadly, Dewaere committed suicide in 1982.
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