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Crime Thief
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Crime Thief (Le Voleur de crimes) is a 1969 French Psychological Thriller film written and directed by Nadine Trintignant.Jean (played by Nadine Trintignant's then-husband Jean-Louis Trintignant), a husband and father, is walking around a quarry one day, for no obvious reason. He sees a young woman in a compact car drive up, and tie herself to the driver's seat. As Jean watches in astonishment, the woman hits the gas pedal, drives right over the edge of the quarry, and plummets a couple of hundred feet to her death.This scene utterly entrances Jean. He writes a letter to the newspaper, claiming falsely that he, Jean, actually killed the girl in the car. The letter becomes a huge story and the "Dam Killer" (apparently there was a dam near the quarry?) is a media sensation. Jean writes letters to the police taunting them and promising to kill again. He leaves his family and takes the spare room in his friend Christian's (Robert Hossein) house; he festoons the walls with press clippings about the Dam Killer. Eventually, Jean becomes fascinated with Christian's sensual young girlfriend, Florinda (Florinda Bolkan).Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); }) | |
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Framing Device: The story is interrupted from time to time for scenes where the police are interviewing witnesses. In a scene where Jean steals a lady's purse but is immediately grabbed by a couple of male bystanders, the film cuts to the framing device, where the cops are asking why the woman told the men to let | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: A woman kills herself for reasons unknown. This starts Jean's descent into madness. | |
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Dramatic Irony: Loads of this when Jean insists on talking about the Dam Killer with his friends. At one point when he's making some confident assertions about the killer, Christian says "If he were here I'd like to know what you say." | |
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And Starring: Florinda Bolkan is credited with "et pour la premiere fois a l'ecran"—"and for the first time onscreen"—even though she had a small part in the film Candy the year before. | |
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Deliberately Monochrome: The last minute or so of the film goes from color to black and white, seemingly in order to match the action with the press photographs of Jean that keep interrupting the action. | |
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Hassle-Free Hotwire / int_1bbd24fe | |
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Psychological Thriller / int_1bbd24fe |
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