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The passions of A Crime at Namur

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Guest of honour at the Namur Francophone Film Festival, which opened on Friday, French star Emmanuelle Béart is at the festival to present several films, including the recent A Crime [+see also:
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by Manuel Pradal, screened at Deauville and Toronto prior to its preview screening at Namur.

Pradal’s third feature unites his obsessions: troubled souls and the mythologies of American cinema. After Ginostra, which mixed mafia and love and was named after a Sicilian island, Pradal sets his new film in New York, with its yellow taxis and neon-illuminated nights, to create a more intimate but nonetheless dark film.

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Emmanuelle Béart is Alice, whose wonderland is the apartment across the hall from the man she loves who is, however, obsessed with finding his wife’s murderer.

Convinced that he could love her once he has put a face to the killer, Alice sets out on a search for the ideal murderer, whom she seduces and prepares for her future lover. A false murderer, a real puppet, the taxi driver that falls victim to this Machiavellian angel is an old and despairing Harvey Keitel, who falls into her trap, blinded by the illusion of amorous salvation.

In this overpowering city whose miseries he films, Pradal follows these three amorous obsessions that overlap in a desperate circle where peace is only obtained at the price of blood. Raw and dark, his film portrays the colours of the New York slums, the scent of suffering and a taste of damnation, with two great actors whose performances perfectly complement one another.

A Crime is a US co-production headed by French outfit ARP Sélection, who are releasing the film in October 11 in France, the same date as the film’s Belgian release through Les Films de L'Elysée.

The film is being sold internationally by Wild Bunch.

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(Translated from French)

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