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Muriel Leferle

1999 · 77 min

A raw, talkative documentary portrait that lets a magnetic, unreliable subject spin her own story, equal parts unsettling and strangely charming.

Directed by
Raymond Depardon
Overview
Muriel Leferle is 22-years-old, a convicted felon, HIV-positive, and can talk her way out of nearly anything. Filmmaker Raymond Depardon first encountered Leferle while shooting his documentary Delits Flagrants/Caught In The Act, about criminals dealing with the judicial system, and eventually decided her story was too good to limit to the 20 minutes of screen time she won in that picture. Muriel Leferle tells her hair-raising life story in greater scope than in the earlier film (both the truth and the version she gives to the judge); despite an unrepentant attitude about her life of crime, Leferle comes off as oddly likable, with street smarts and spunk to spare.

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    Themes
    • crime
    • identity
    • survival
    • justice
    • addiction
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    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
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    • documentary
    • true story
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language strong
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Horror1
    Humour3
    Realism10
    Romance1
    Tension3
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