Thieves (Les Voleurs) (1996)
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82% of critics liked it
(11 reviews) -
65% of users liked it
(530 ratings)
André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks… More André Téchiné's complex and ambitious crime drama starts with a prologue in which a little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by two strangers bringing home his father's body. The story of the deceased, Ivan (Didier Bezace), and his involvement with car thieves unfolds in flashbacks as told by different people: Ivan's policeman brother Alex (Daniel Auteuil); Juliette (Laurence Côte), a young woman involved with the both brothers; and Marie (Catherine Deneuve), an unhappy philosophy professor in love with Juliette. Auteuil and Deneuve played siblings three years earlier in Téchiné's similarly rueful family drama Ma Saison Préferée. ~ Yuri German, Rovi
- Directed By
- Andre Techine
- Written By
- Gilles Taurand, Andre Techine, Michel Alexandre, Pascal Bonitzer
- Genres
- Drama, Romance, Art House & International
R,
- In Theaters
- Oct 5, 1996 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Mike Clark, USA Today
Deneuve gives one of her best performances ever, though she's not exactly the movie's focus. Of the many pleasures here, one is trying to guess just who the dramatic focal point is.
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Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Techine involves us in a subtle, gradual process of discovery; each piece changes the relationship of the others. He is so wise about these criminals, he makes the bad guys in most American films look like cartoon characters.
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Brandon Judell, PopcornQ
What I am interested in is showing people who are alive and therefore in conflict.
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Michael W. Phillips, Jr., Goatdog's Movies
[An] overly complex pseudo-thriller.
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Chris Hicks, Deseret News, Salt Lake City
There is never enough reason for the audience to care about these people, and everyone speaks in circles when some straight-up conversation might be better.
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Cast
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Daniel Auteuil
as Alex
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Catherine Deneuve
as Marie Leblanc
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Laurence Côte
as Juliette Fontana
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Benoît Magimel
as Jimmy Fontana
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Fabienne Babe
as Mireille
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Julien Riviere
as Justin
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Didier Bezace
as Ivan
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Ivan Desny
as Victor
