Tuesday, December 19, 2023

Scene of the crime (1986)




In a family countryside, troubled kid stumbles upon a fugitive from justice who is hiding from authorities in some shed. Taking kid in his hands, he treathens to him that he would kill him if he betrays his whereabouts to he police. Of course, fugitive from justice is all the same troubled as the kid, so he decides to choke life out of him with the help of his accomplice, but as it turns out, he saves the kid by killing his accomplice. Lost and not knowing what to do, he goes to reaustarunt by the river where mother of troubled child is working (great scene where some dirty frenchmen are singing some American song). There he encounters her and become familliar with poor mother, who is by that time unaware of what's happening. Soon afterwards psyphopatic girl turns up looking for her lover who is now dead, shoots the culprit and in her unstable frame of mind kills her by sppeding up to wall. Fortunately, young boy is kept alive, but her mother, still clinking to rescue of her son goes to hospital where he is staying, hoping that she will be reunited by him. One word come to mind, why does she do all that, unless she had some uncomfortable feeling in her own house, amplified by her notorious uncaring fother? As in all French movies there is some level of surrealism about it, and Catrin Denevues's performance is stiiil great after so many years.

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