History Film / ACrimeInParadise

''A Crime in Paradise'' (French: ''Un crime au Paradis'') is a 2001 French BlackComedy film directed by Jean Becker, [[TheRemake adapted]] by Sébastien Japrisot from the 1951 film ''La Poison'' by Creator/SachaGuitry, and starring Creator/JacquesVilleret, Creator/JosianeBalasko, Creator/AndreDussollier and Creator/GerardHernandez.

''A Crime in Paradise'' (French: ''Un crime au Paradis'') is a 2001 French BlackComedy film directed by Jean Becker, [[TheRemake adapted]] by Sébastien Japrisot from the 1951 film ''La Poison'' by Sacha Guitry, and starring Creator/JacquesVilleret, Creator/JosianeBalasko, Creator/AndreDussollier and Creator/GerardHernandez.

The story takes place in 1980, in Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost, a French village in the Lyon area. Joseph "Jojo" Braconnier is an unhappy farmer who's married to Lucienne aka "Lulu", a nagging shrew and alcoholic who torments him everyday with nasty pranks and insults. Their farm is called "Le Paradis" ("The Paradise"), but life there is anything but, and Jojo cannot ask for divorce since the farm technically belongs to Lulu, who inherited it from her family. One day, Jojo hears of a brilliant lawyer who has just achieved his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo seeks the lawyer out and tells him he killed his wife, then listens to the lawyer's advices in order to prepare the true murder. Meanwhile, Lulu also sets out to murder Jojo.

* CatchphraseInsult: Lulu always insults Jojo with "Couille sèche!" (translation: "Dry ball"/"dry testicle").

''A Crime in Paradise'' (French: ''Un crime au Paradis'') is a 2001 French BlackComedy film directed by Jean Becker, [[TheRemake adapted]] by Sébastien Japrisot from the 1951 film ''La Poison'' by Sacha Guitry, and starring Creator/JacquesVilleret, Creator/JosianeBalasko, André Dussollier and Creator/GerardHernandez.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Lulu tries poisoning Jojo, by putting rodenticide in his wine. She dies before Jojo has the occasion to drink it however, and it's an unfortunate prosecutor who ends up drinking it during the investigation on the crime scene.

* NiceGuy: Jojo is a peaceful farmer who's far from exhibiting the same jerkassery as his wife. Too bad his life is hell.

The story takes place in 1980, in Saint-Julien-sur-Bibost, a French village in the Lyon area. Joseph "Jojo" Braconnier is an unhappy farmer who's married to Lucienne "Lulu", a nagging shrew and alcoholic who torments him everyday with nasty pranks and insults. Their farm is called "Le Paradis" ("The Paradise"), but life there is anything but, and Jojo cannot ask for divorce since the farm technically belongs to Lulu, who inherited it from her family. One day, Jojo hears of a brilliant lawyer who has just achieved his twenty-fifth acquittal. Very impressed, Jojo seeks the lawyer out and tells him he killed his wife, then listens to the lawyer's advices in order to prepare the true murder. Meanwhile, Lulu also sets out to murder Jojo.

* TheAlcoholic: Lulu drinks booze all the time and has the characteristic red features of it on her face.

* SustainedMisunderstanding: The only person Lulu is nice to is her physiotherapist, named Jacky. He's so good at doing massages to her that she almost has orgasms. It turns out Jojo's BestFriend is also named Jacky, and that Jacky advises Jojo to have Lulu have sex so her behavior could improve (not implying Jojo or someone else should do it). One night, Jojo hears Lulu [[TalkingInYourSleep talk in her sleep]] about "Jacky" and his hands, and happily thinks his friend had sex with her. He keeps thinking that for the remainder of the film, not aware that she was referring to her physiotherapist.

''A Crime in Paradise'' (French: ''Un crime au Paradis'') is a 2001 French BlackComedy film directed by Jean Becker, [[TheRemake adapted]] by Sébastien Japrisot from the 1951 film ''La Poison'' by Sacha Guitry, and starring Creator/JacquesVilleret, Josiane Balasko, André Dussollier and Creator/GerardHernandez.

* NiceGuy: Jojo is a peaceful farmer far from exhibiting the same jerkassery as his wife. Too bad his life is hell.

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Lulu tries poisoning Jojo, by putting rodenticide in his wine. She dies before Jojo has the occasion to drink it however, and it's an unfortunate cop who ends up drinking it during the investigation on the crime scene.

* AwfulWeddedLife: Lulu and Jojo didn't marry out of love to begin with, and Lulu progressively made Jojo's life a hell as time passed. Jojo can't divorce lest he wants to end up with nothing. The only solace Jojo has is his stamps collection.

* {{Jerkass}}: Lulu is a nasty piece of work who makes poor Jojo's life a hell. She insults him everyday, deliberately sabotages his farm work, burns his stamps collection, puts an overdose of salt in his soup telling him she peed in it, and so on and so forth. Jojo does respond with pranks in turn, but he goes nowhere as far as Lulu.