"Pour Le Plaisir" / "Everybody Is A Killer" is a strange little movie that can be described as a mix of black comedy and whodunit. A car mechanic working in a small French town cannot sexually satisfy his much younger wife, who seems to be fascinated by murderers. His psychiatrist advises him to fake a confession to a murder, and he does - but (coincidence?) the following morning the revolting town bully who lived nearby is found murdered for real, with one of the mechanic's tools. Despite his claims that the confession was all a joke, the police arrest him and he becomes the hero of the town because everyone hated the victim. Meanwhile, his wife finds herself attracted to the psychiatrist, whom she suspects of being the true murderer....As a black comedy, this film is not very funny: in fact, I barely laughed once. It mostly depends on one joke - the entire town population worshipping the presumed murderer so much that they turn him into a local hero - which might have been shocking a few decades ago, but now, not so much. The film works better as a straight whodunit: the identity of the real murderer could have come right out of an Agatha Christie book, and "the moment of realization" is probably the best part of the film. In closing, I have to mention that Nadia Fares is one of the hottest actresses that French cinema has offered us in a long time. Not conventionally attractive, perhaps, certainly not "cute", but with a rough, "you don't want to mess with me" kind of sex appeal - and a knockout body. (**)
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A movie that you will have fun to watch
alexandrionel29 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
Just watched the movie on HBO. Really nice. A nice plot with well done characters make a nice movie. This is one of them.
The location: a small town from France, where everyone knows everyone, with a few cops that don't know much about crimes are about anything.
The local mechanic played by François Berléand has a very beautiful wife. She tells him she wants to sleep with criminals so he goes to the local shrink (who came from Paris to his hometown with a Ferrari). Who tells him to take blame for a murder. The whole town loves him for what he does but his wife thinks that the real murderer is the shrink (so do the cops:)), so she sleeps with him. The mechanics help tells the cops that he did it, so that another beautiful girl (which fell in love with Francois because she thought he was the murderer). Anyway, the plot gets a little complicated later.
Anyway , I recommend this movie, it's a little boring at the beginning but it gets better in the end.
The location: a small town from France, where everyone knows everyone, with a few cops that don't know much about crimes are about anything.
The local mechanic played by François Berléand has a very beautiful wife. She tells him she wants to sleep with criminals so he goes to the local shrink (who came from Paris to his hometown with a Ferrari). Who tells him to take blame for a murder. The whole town loves him for what he does but his wife thinks that the real murderer is the shrink (so do the cops:)), so she sleeps with him. The mechanics help tells the cops that he did it, so that another beautiful girl (which fell in love with Francois because she thought he was the murderer). Anyway, the plot gets a little complicated later.
Anyway , I recommend this movie, it's a little boring at the beginning but it gets better in the end.
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