One day in a French provincial town, Alice decides to convince Luc, her young, impressionable boyfriend, to kill Said, a classmate who’s a real show-off. They stage a macabre scene and do the terrible deed. After running away, they discover chaos instead of the fantasy life they imagined as outlaws.

A provocative early feature by François Ozon, and one of his most extreme tales, Criminal Lovers mixes the lovers-on-the-run genre with fairy tale elements, with a large dollop of cannibalism, torture, and lust! Made in the era of Larry Clark’s Kids and Bully, it is by turns chilling and sexy.