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  • Actors: Stefano Cassetti, Isild Le Besco, Patrick Dell'Isola, Viviana Aliberti, Estelle Perron
  • Directors: Cédric Kahn
  • Format: PAL, Widescreen
  • Language English, French, German, Italian
  • Region: All Regions
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 18
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Oct 2002
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00006JY5D
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 55,040 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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In 1986 Roberto Succo escaped from an Italian mental institution, where he had been incarcerated for the brutal murder of his parents, and went into hiding in France. Travelling between the Mediterranean and the mountains of Savoy, Succo left a trail of inexplicable murders, rapes and abductions which the police investigators struggled to connect. Cedric Kahn's gripping dramatisation of true events gives a terrifying insight into the disturbed mind of a serial killer and also follows the desperate attempts by the police to hunt him down. Stefano Cassetti gives a riveting, extraordinarily intense performance as the psychotic Succo, who was declared France's public enemy number one.

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15 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of an enigmatic serial killer., 23 Mar 2003
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Roberto Succo [VHS] [2002] (VHS Tape)
Roberto Succo (2001) is a far superior film to Cedric Kahn's earlier film L'ennui- which apart from the curvaceous Sophie Guillarme (spelling?)- who was so great in Harry, He's Here to Help- was a mesh of embarrasment & sexual cliches. Kahn makes a film that fuses elements of the biopic with true crime story, a romance between ingenue Lea & Kurt/Andre/Succo.

Stefano Cassetti is electric in the lead role, a handsome take on Vincent Gallo with one of the great movie stare's- think Klaus Kinski in Aguire, Wrath of God or Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet. Isild Le Besco is brilliant as his lover Lea, though sadly she vanishes before the end (it is problematic shaping real life events around cinematic narrative)- scenes such as the ones where her hair runs down her naked back or where she smokes a cigarette with Kurt's hat on, remind me of the impossible beauty of the European female. Another notable, if brief appearance is that of Estelle Perron as one of Succo's kidnapped, Celine. She's great in a scene where Succo's character appears so disturbing, surmising her life, talking of psychology before attempting a sexual coupling (& failing, Succo is like a child).

Kahn doesn't give the simple rationale for Succo's behaviour, the chaotic nature of his actions (seemingly without pattern) & the scene where we see the police discover a myriad of photos of Succo in different appearances highlight what we don't know...

This film certainly doesn't celebrate crime, reminding me of the way in which the film Chopper undercut the memoirs of it's eponymous anti-hero. It feels a lot different to TV reconstructions/movies of Ted Bundy or Ed Gein & has none of that repressed frottage people get from people like The Krays in this country. The loss Thomas depicts when staring at the photos of one of the missing girls- & how her life has become merely a set of still images from the past is unbearably moving...

The soundtrack is excellent, Culture Club's Love is Love is used to great effect early on, while the recurrent use of the Marianne Faithfull song is more than a good idea.

The cinematography is brilliant- especially capturing the wild car chase scenes which felt as great as those in Amoros Perros & The French Connection. There's also the great scene where the camera tracks 360degrees, following Kurt's white convertible as he picks up Lea.The denoument as such is as enigmatic as the figure of Succo (heightened by his phrase "I am not Roberto Succo" before babbling off on his frequent diatribes on Communism or Terrorism; my only criticism is the absence of Lea...

Roberto Succo is an excellent film, one that takes a novel approach to the material of recent life- it doesn't celebrate a distured character, but it doesn't simplify him or his actions either- making it one of the most interesting films of recent years.

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6 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric psycho drama, 26 Mar 2003
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Roberto Succo is quite a gripping ride
through the psychopathic mind of thief and serial killer Succo.
This french film with an Italien lead, is reminisent
of bonnie & Clyde and all the actors concerned do a great job.
The film has a great eye for it's French surroundings.
There are a couple of shocking scenes that are very well
shot and Cassetti is an intense performer.
I highly recommend you see this superior thriller.
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2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars A boring thriller, but an accurate docudrama, 31 Jul 2007
By lexo1941 (Edinburgh, Scotland) - See all my reviews
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This film is based on Pascale Froment's definitive non-fiction account of Succo's criminal career, rather too based on it if you ask me, as it's essentially an extremely literal chronicle of some of Succo's more photogenic crimes. For example, many of his murders are not represented here, whereas the bizarre incident where he kidnapped a woman and her teenage son, forced her to drive out to a wood, ordered them out of the car and then made them both remove all their clothes before he then returned to the car and drove off without laying a finger on either of them is in the movie - a relatively minor incident in his career, albeit a weird one.

The fidelity of the film to Succo's life robs it of drama, so that the film is actually kind of dull. The only effective dramatisation of Succo's life is Bernard-Marie Koltès' play 'Roberto Zucco', which changes the facts to suit the needs of drama, but which is much more remarkable than this rather pedestrian movie.
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