Genealogies of a Crime (Généalogies d'un crime)

Acclaimed master Raoul Ruiz's dark comedy is based on the case of Hermine van Hug,a 1920s psychoanalyst with controversial ideas about criminal psychology. lieved that criminal tendencies are formed at age five and who labeled her nephew a murderer before he reached adolescence.

Ruiz's film is an intelligent, darkly comic meditation on family, free will, and the nature of the criminal mind. Catherine Deneuve is compelling and radiant playing two roles as both victim...and killer?