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With: Catherine Deneuve, Michel Piccoli, Melvil Poupaud, Andrzej Seweryn, Bernadette Lafont, Monique Mélinand, Mathieu Amalric
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Written by: Pascal Bonitzer, Raúl Ruiz
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Directed by: Raúl Ruiz
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MPAA Rating: NR
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Language: French, with English subtitles
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Running Time: 114
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Date: 03/26/1997
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Genealogies of a Crime (1997)
Double Duty
By Jeffrey M. Anderson
Catherine Deneuve stars in a dazzling dual role in this hyper-complex movie from director Raul Ruiz. If I get this straight, she plays a psychiatrist giving radical treatments to her young nephew on one hand, and the lawyer trying to figure out the story after the nephew kills the aunt. Ruiz peppers the film with all kinds of flashbacks and flashbacks-within-flashbacks, so that we're never sure what's what. Nonetheless, I found the film's mystery strangely compelling, no doubt helped by Deneuve's radiant presence. Michel Piccoli co-stars.
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