Crime Thief
- IMDb link: 0063789
- IMDb rating: 5.7 (238 votes) Search
- Genres: Thriller, Crime, Drama
- Director: Nadine Trintignant, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Hossein
- Cast: Giorgia Moll, Bernadette Lafont and others
- Release date: 23 May 1969
- Release year: 1969
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Country: France, Italy
- Keywords: title directed by female, suicide, letter to police, confessing to murder, handcuffs, chased by the police, kidnapping a child, ice cream cone, male friendship, police sketch
Plot
Storyline
After witnessing a woman's suicide, a disturbed man decides to relieve his boredom by writing a string of anonymous letters to the press, in which he claims to be her murderer.
Married with two young children, Jean Girod, a "writer", partly escapes that family life when he secretly witnesses a young woman commit suicide. In that new other life, he rents a room through his abstract artist friend Tian, there where he takes refuge. Through delusion or psychopathy, Jean begins to pedal the notion that he killed the woman, taunting the police through open anonymous letters to the media stating that he knows who killed her. He seemingly is either trying to push the theory as far as he can without getting caught, or truly does want to be caught as the killer despite not having done it. In an encounter with Tian's friend Florinda, with who there is a seeming mutual attraction, Jean may divulge his true intent and from what mental illness he suffers.
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