Genealogies of a Crime (1997)

Original title

Généalogies d'un crime

Directed by

Raúl Ruiz

Genre

drama film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

12

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 31 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman defends a young man accused of murdering his aunt, but she begins to suspect her client may be hiding the truth. The story twists through identity, madness, and legal games in early 20th century Paris.

slow-burncerebralunsettlingdarkly comicmelancholicdreamlikevisually lushtense

What happens

Genealogies of a Crime (French: Généalogies d'un crime, Portuguese: Genealogias de um Crime) is a 1997 French-Portuguese crime film directed by Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. It was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Silver Bear for an outstanding artistic contribution. Despite being released in 1997 (1998 in the United States), the film was not released on DVD until 2005. Since, it has been included in multiple DVD anthologies of Ruiz’s works. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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