Desertman84 A Crime is a thriller starring Norman Reedus, Emmanuelle Béart and Harvey Keitel.The screenplay is about the devastated life of a man haunted by the unsolved murder of his beloved wife and is strangely complicated by the mysterious neighbor who loves him from afar.The film was directed by Manuel Pradal.Vincent's (Reedus) wife has suffered a most brutal fate, and these days the once happy New Yorker is but a frozen shell of his former self.He is not a man unloved, however, because although he may currently be unaware of her feelings for him, his neighbor Alice (Béart) knows in her heart that she and Vincent were meant to be together. All that needs to happen to make Vincent recognize her love is for the grieving widower to finally be liberated from his tragic past; and she is willing to go to any lengths necessary in order to make this happen. If he was finally to find the man responsible for his wife's death, he could finally be free to open his heart to her.When she hails a cab driven by lonely New York soul,Roger (Keitel), the gears of the scheming woman's elaborate plan are slowly set into motion despite the ignorance of both the naive cab driver, and the somber object of her delusional affections. The performance of the cast particularly Harvey Keitel save this pointless movie and poorly written screenplay.But still,it never fails to entertain and provide some unusual twists that makes it a decent thriller.In the end,you probably neither care about the events,the twists nor the characters in the movie.

starpatchsam Not much of a plot and until I read other reviews I could barely figure out what the whole point of the movie was. I cannot believe Harvey Keitel would be in a movie like this. It needed A lot more explanation and at least some action. The dog races had nothing to do with the story. They needed to have the wife in the movie so the viewers could at least try to understand the importance of any of the story At the end you didn't even feel like it should be the end. Just as confusing and boring as the rest of the movie. The actors were not very good as you can tell by looking up their past movie history they haven't done too well before or after this movie. Thank goodness I had a free Redbox code so at least I didn't waste any money just wasted time watching it.

Rodrigo Amaro Vincent (Norman Reedus) is still suffering the loss of his wife killed three years ago by some psychopath taxi driver. He can't move with his life so his neighbor (Emmanuelle Béart) who has a crush on him tries to help him by trying to find this killer. Easy? Maybe. So she picks a random taxi driver (Harvey Keitel) and starts to get involved with this strange guy and she's gonna invent that this guy is really the killer of Vincent's wife. And then...The story behind the movie "A Crime" is one of those intriguing stories where the next movement, the next step is always awaited. There are many surprises, not in that clichéd sense of plot twists, but just in the way that you can't see the obvious, it doesn't exist here. A quiet and slow paced story where the development of the characters and their actions is more important than to really know if they're gonna find the killer or what's gonna happen with Roger the taxi driver. But this is not a perfect screenplay, there's few things wrong with it (the beginning was way too fast, in one moment Vincent see his wife dead and then the movie leaps three years later; and his first moments with his neighbor are quite strange, not well explained). But besides that the movie floats very well and leaves the viewer wanting more of it. "A Crime" runs about 100 minutes but I think that it could be more longer specially in terms of characters development (mostly Vincent), showing the previous life of the main characters and things like that because these characters are presented and we're feel like "Can we like these characters? What's their reason behind their actions"? It misses much.The performances are good, most notably Harvey Keitel (How come this guy gets incredible roles where he has to perform erotic scenes at the age of 60? Things that even younger actors don't do frequently and I'm even comparing him with his young co-star Reedus who only has one scene with Béart and it's not even close of Keitel's seductive scenes with Béart). Béart was quite convincible in some parts as the desperate woman who wants to be with Vincent but instead she got trapped and got romantically and sexually involved with the taxi driver. I really liked Norman Reedus mysterious performance here but I wished he could have more scenes and a better character development. Most of his lines are whispered so I advise you to turn up the volume or you're probably miss what he's saying. A surprising, effective and great film to watch. 9/10

summerisle Some people might have two problems with the film: 1. It's rather old fashioned (which is a good thing in my opinion, I don't like the regular hyped mainstream trash). The plot is the kind of story that could come from a novel of Patricia Highsmith, and the look of the film is more like it's from the late 70's or early 80's. 2. The pretty complex story with a lot of strange (and maybe) almost unbelievable coincidences. And you don't get a simple positive character for identification. Exact the same way many french thrillers from the good old times were working (especially those of Clouzot). Though sometimes these films seem a bit too over-constructed (and I must admit I had this problem when I first saw Clouzot's "Les Diaboliques", 1955). But when you accept this (and life itself sometimes surprises us with strange coincidences too), you will see an excellent, very emotional thriller with great performances. You'll never know what happens next!