Les voleurs
- 1996
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- 1h 57min
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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueThe fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.The fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.The fates of four different people - a thief, a cop, a female professor of philosophy, a suicidal girl - unexpectedly collide.
- Réalisation
- Scénario
- Casting principal
- Récompenses
- 3 victoires et 7 nominations au total
Franck Merenda
- Vigile 2
- (as Francesco Merenda)
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Perhaps the subtitles failed to do justice to the movie, but the visual construction of Les Voleurs crosses all boundaries. The complexities of the plot can be confusing; however, the visual imagery used in the film helps reinforce the characteristics of each relationship the film studies. All in all, a brilliant film to watch if you feel up to reading the subtitles.
This film has a complex, multi-layered structure that grabs your interest...but not much substance underneath. There's no real mystery to the plot, and no real revelations about "human nature" either. Well-acted all around - including a little boy who is wise way beyond his years. (**)
The film, Shakespeare's shades. At the heart of the film is love. Everything else, just around this love.
And when Auteuil says: You just do not want to fight.
Heroine Catherine Deneuve fights: I fall asleep with her and wake up with her.
What can say more?
It's a wonderful movie in the movie.
Suicide. And how is it possible to live,
The image Heroine (Deneuve) - two in one, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet buried in the apartment.
And when Auteuil says: You just do not want to fight.
Heroine Catherine Deneuve fights: I fall asleep with her and wake up with her.
What can say more?
It's a wonderful movie in the movie.
Suicide. And how is it possible to live,
The image Heroine (Deneuve) - two in one, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet buried in the apartment.
Please, don't get misunderstood by the title: Thieves. OK, it is question of thieves, and also of a cop, but strangely despite those "ingredients", the way this movie is "cooked", it is not a crime drama. But a drama and characters study, yes, definitely. The making is very accurate, made with the greatest care, with a very complex story telling. Which supposed a very complicated editing game. It is not a crime film with gunfights, car chases; very unique indeed in the movie history. There are films with cops without being crime films, for instance GARDE A VUE or POLICE, but with cops and robbers without being a crime film.... Not my stuff, but still a good film.
A love triangle. A crime story. A drama about fraternal conflict. All could make fine stories on their own, but in this film they're thrown together, and then given a philosophical spin (appropriate, since one of the characters is a philosophy professor). It's also more character-driven than you'd expect from this type of story; we are taken into the character's motivation, so we understand their actions, rather than have them driven by plot machinations. And it's done like a novel, flashing back and forth, so actions unfold gradually to reveal another layer. Unfortunately, as, it seems, with many films from France, the story doesn't so much end as stop. This may be appropriate with something like, say, UN COEUR EN HIVER, but it left me feeling a little cheated here. Still, this is worthwhile viewing.
Of the actors, the only ones which are immediately familiar to me are Daniel Auteuil and Catherine Deneuve. Auteuil is playing someone who has trouble expressing himself, a character he seems to specialize him, based on what I've seen of his films (JEAN DE FLORETTE/MANON OF THE SPRING and UN COEUR EN HIVER), and he does another fine job here. I've never been a fan of Deneuve; I usually find her too inexpressive and icy. Here, however, she plays a character you usually don't find in crime films; an older woman having an affair with someone younger (here, a woman) who isn't fading or scheming. She makes Marie, who at first seems didactic, fully human.
Of the actors, the only ones which are immediately familiar to me are Daniel Auteuil and Catherine Deneuve. Auteuil is playing someone who has trouble expressing himself, a character he seems to specialize him, based on what I've seen of his films (JEAN DE FLORETTE/MANON OF THE SPRING and UN COEUR EN HIVER), and he does another fine job here. I've never been a fan of Deneuve; I usually find her too inexpressive and icy. Here, however, she plays a character you usually don't find in crime films; an older woman having an affair with someone younger (here, a woman) who isn't fading or scheming. She makes Marie, who at first seems didactic, fully human.
Le saviez-vous
- AnecdotesCatherine Deneuve was hesitant at first to play the character of a woman falling in love for another woman, but Andre Techine managed to convince her.
- ConnexionsReferenced in Les convoyeurs attendent (1999)
- Bandes originalesDouha Alia
Written by Mohamed Khelifati (as C. Mami)
Performed by Mohamed Khelifati (as Cheb Mami)
(C) BMG Music Publishing France (BMG)
Collection Navy Blue Silver
(P)Totem Records
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Détails
- Date de sortie
- Pays d’origine
- Langue
- Aussi connu sous le nom de
- Thieves
- Lieux de tournage
- 97 Boulevard des Belges, Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France(first hotel where Alex and Juliette have sex)
- Sociétés de production
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Box-office
- Montant brut aux États-Unis et au Canada
- 1 018 682 $US
- Montant brut mondial
- 1 018 682 $US
- Durée1 heure 57 minutes
- Couleur
- Mixage
- Rapport de forme
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was Les voleurs (1996) officially released in Canada in English?
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