
Thieves
Thieves is a 1996 French drama film directed by André Téchiné, starring Daniel Auteuil, Catherine Deneuve and Laurence Côte. The plot follows a cynical police officer, who comes from a family of thieves, and a lonely philosophy professor, both romantically involved with a self-destructive petty criminal. With a puzzling structure, the story is told through a series of flashbacks presented from four different perspectives.
Plot
Justin, a ten-year-old boy living in a small town in the Rhône-Alpes region, is awaken in the middle of the night. His mother, Mireille is crying and his widower grandfather, Victor, tells the boy that his father, Ivan, is dead. The next day, Alex, Justin's uncle and Ivan's younger brother, arrives for the funeral accompanied by a young woman, Juliette. Justin notice the tension between the adults. He takes his father's gun and hides it. The story flashes backward and forward to explain what led up to Ivan's death.
More details
author | André Téchiné Gilles Taurand Michel Alexandre |
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contentLocation | Haute-Savoie |
director | André Téchiné |
editor | Martine Giordano |
genre | drama |
keywords | arrest begin crime boss cry housing estate lyon marseille new life older brother psychiatric hospital rhône-alpes shoplift sibling small town write young woman |
musicBy | Philippe Sarde |
nomination | César Award for Best Actress |
producer | Alain Sarde |
theme | lgbt-related |