Généalogies d'un crime

Jeanne is a Freudian analyst who thinks she has detected homicidal tendencies in her nephew, aged 5. She also knows that - according to Freud's dictum - "everything is settled" by the age of five. No aspect of a child's personality is likely to alter in any significant way thereafter. Jeanne therefore decides to examine the remorseless development of her nephew's criminal persona, until such time as the crime she expects is committed : the nephew kills his aunt - and thus eliminates the only person who knew of his criminal tendencies.

Keywords

  • Catherine Deneuve
  • Escape to the 90's
  • Childhood

Actors

  • Bernadette Lafont
  • Melvil Poupaud
  • Michel Piccoli
  • Catherine Deneuve
  • Andrzej Seweryn
  • Mathieu Amalric
  • Camila Mora-Scheihing
  • Hubert Saint-Macary
  • Jean-Yves Gautier
  • Monique Mélinand

Director

  • Raoul Ruiz

Thriller, Drama

1h 54min

-10

FR

France
1996
Jeanne is a Freudian analyst who thinks she has detected homicidal tendencies in her nephew, aged 5. She also knows that - according to Freud's dictum - "everything is settled" by the age of five. No aspect of a child's personality is likely to alter in any significant way thereafter. Jeanne therefore decides to examine the remorseless development of her nephew's criminal persona, until such time as the crime she expects is committed : the nephew kills his aunt - and thus eliminates the only person who knew of his criminal tendencies.

Jeanne is a Freudian analyst who thinks she has detected homicidal tendencies in her nephew, aged 5. She also knows that - according to Freud's dictum - "everything is settled" by the age of five. No aspect of a child's personality is likely to alter in any significant way thereafter. Jeanne therefore decides to examine the remorseless development of her nephew's criminal persona, until such time as the crime she expects is committed : the nephew kills his aunt - and thus eliminates the only person who knew of his criminal tendencies.


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