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A Crime in Paradise
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Wikipedia article
'A Crime in Paradise' 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).
Plot
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".
Cast
* Jacques Villeret as Jojo Braconnier
* Josiane Balasko as Lulu Braconnier
* Andr Dussollier as Lawyer Jacquard
* Suzanne Flon as Mistress
* Grard Hernandez as Jacky
* Roland Magdane as The coffee's owner
* Valrie Mairesse as Magali
* Jacques Dacqmine as President Laborde
* Dominique Lavanant as Mlle Goudilleux
* Jean Dell as Judge Frgard
* Daniel Prvost as Lawyer Miramont
* Jenny Clve as Madame Bertrand
* Ccile Vassort as Madame Ramirez
* Eric Bougnon as Briscot
* Jean-Michel Martial as Jacky Lvque
* Roger Crouzet as Mr. Doucet
* Christine Delaroche as Jacquard's assistant
* Maryse Deol as The dealer in notions
* Armand Chagot as Officer of police station
* Michel Bonnet as The substitute
References
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