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A Crime in Paradise is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Becker with Jacques Villeret
A Crime in Paradise (2001)
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Add to a movie listA Crime in Paradise, French: Un crime au paradis, is a French comedy film from 2001, directed by Jean Becker, written by Sacha Guitry (1951), and starring Jacques Villeret and Josiane Balasko. The scenario was used on the film La Poison (1951).
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1980, in a rural village in the Lyon region, Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost Joseph Poacher says "Jojo" and his wife Lucienne called "Lulu", 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 on TV a story about a brilliant lawyer who is in his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo will find it. He tells her he killed his wife while he has not 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".Actors
Jacques Villeret
(Jojo Braconnier)
Daniel Prévost
(l'avocat général)
Josiane Balasko
(Lulu Braconnier)
André Dussollier
(Maître Jacquard)
Suzanne Flon
(La maîtresse)
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