Thieves

In the middle of the night, someone brings Ivan’s body home to his wife and his sad-faced, jug-eared son. Through flashbacks, the film discloses the relationships among Ivan and his brother Alex, a cop with a cleanliness fetish; siblings Juliette and Jimmy, Ivan’s partners in a seedy nightclub; the love triangle of Alex, Juliette, and Marie, a professor of philosophy; and of Alex and his nephew, Ivan’s dour, stoic son. Ivan’s death changes every relationship. Images of paragliders, sun bathers, and opera suggest an expansive, colorful world outside the constricted lives of these characters.

• Benoît Magimel
• Catherine Deneuve
• Daniel Auteuil
• Didier Bezace
• Didier Raymond
• Eric Kreikenmayer
• Fabienne Babe
• Ivan Desny
• Jean-Jacques Cravero
• Jean-Louis Meunier
• Julien Rivière
• Laurence Côte
• Naguime Bendidi
• Pierre Perez
• Régis Betoule