The Innocent

Starring: Louis Garrel, Anouk Grinberg, Roschdy Zem, et al.

Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie (Anouk Grinberg), marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel (Roschdy Zem). Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping Abel into one of his schemes. Complicating matters is Clemence (Noemie Merlant), Abel's brazen coworker, who convinces him to take part in the heist. Directing from a screenplay he cowrote (with Tanguy Viel and Naila Guiguet), Garrel explores the comedic results of playacting's intrusion into reality, as well as reality's comedic tendency to transform us into what we never thought we could be.

• Format: DVD
• UPC: 715515288910
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Publisher: The Criterion Collection
• Director: Louis Garrel
• Starring: Louis Garrel, Anouk Grinberg, Roschdy Zem, Noemie Merlant, Jean-Claude Pautot, Yanisse Kebbab
• Runtime: 1 hour, 38 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: DVD; Subtitled; NTSC
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.