A Crime in Paradise

2001    89m
6.549%66%
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".
Directed By
Jean Becker
Studio
Josy Films, K.J.B. Production,

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Cast of A Crime in Paradise
  • Jacques VilleretJojo Braconnier
  • Josiane BalaskoLulu Braconnier
  • André DussollierMaître Jacquard
  • Suzanne FlonLa maîtresse
  • Gérard HernandezJacky
  • Roland MagdaneLe patron du café
  • Jacques DacqmineLaborde, président du tribunal
  • Valérie MairesseMagali Gianelli, la femme du patron du café
  • Dominique LavanantMlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne
  • Daniel Prévostl'avocat général

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