Scene of the Crime

A crumbling family in rural France is catapulted into a world of crime and high stakes drama in this André Téchiné's finely tuned psychological mystery. Thomas, a teenager suffering through his parents' divorce, is startled on a country walk by Martin, an escaped convict. The stranger demands that Thomas bring him money for train fare, but in complying, Thomas is nearly killed by Martin's violent accomplish. In a surprising scene, Martin saves Thomas's life. These striking events at the beginning of the film set the stage for Lili, Thomas' mother, a club owner played by a strikingly beautiful Catherine Deneuve. Trapped by both her struggles to raise Thomas and the village's provincial ways, Lili finds herself drawn to Martin, who she knows to be a criminal. As tangled impulses grow more intense, and the implications of both Lili's and Martin's quests for freedom escalate, SCENE OF THE CRIME unfurls a devastating portrait of the constraints both of childhood and the conventional morality. (official distributor synopsis)