A Crime in Paradise (French: Un crime au paradis) is a 2001 French comedy film directed by Jean Becker, adapted by Sebastien Japrisot from the story by Sacha Guitry, and starring Jacques Villeret and Josiane Balasko. The scenario was used on the film La Poison (1951).
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Directed by | Jean Becker |
Written by | Sebastien Japrisot Jean Becker based on La Poison by Sacha Guitry |
Produced by | Christian Fechner |
Starring | Jacques Villeret Josiane Balasko André Dussollier |
Cinematography | Jean-Marie Dreujou |
Edited by | Jacques Witta |
Music by | Pierre Bachelet |
Distributed by | UGC Fox Distribution |
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Running time | 89 minutes |
Country | France |
Language | French |
Budget | $11.9 million |
Box office | $13.9 million[1] |
1980, in a rural village in the Lyon region, Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost. Joseph Poacher ("Jojo") and his wife Lucienne ("Lulu"), a nagging shrew and inveterate alcoholic, lead a married life for the less confrontational, in their farm located in a place called "Paradise". One day, Jojo watches a story on television about a brilliant lawyer who has just achieved his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo will seeks the lawyer out. He tells her he killed his wife even though he hasn't actually yet done so. By a set of very clever questions, is explaining how he would have had to make to be pretty sure to get the extenuating circumstances. Jojo in then returns to "Paradise" and begins to organize, as directed by the lawyer, the staging of the "perfect crime".
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