When he arrives on the Côte d'Azur, accountant Edgar Lamarck is expecting nothing more than to do some business, conning a shipyard owner, Thierry Ferrand, with an under-valuation of his business. He doesn’t expect to be caught up in a hair-raising, death-defying thriller intrigue. His big mistake was to go looking for some night time entertainment to round off the evening. "Lovely Rita" turns out to be nothing like the sumptuous blonde Edgar happened to come across on the internet. She is in fact a fiery redhead who pulls a gun on him when she meets him. And then she insists that he, a respectable accountant, helps her to dispose of the body of a man she has just killed.
It was obviously going to be one of those nights.
AWARDS:
- Viennale
2001 Won "FIPRESCI Prize - Special Mention"
Jessica Hausner, For its sharply focused study of a disturbed teenager's rebellion against bourgeois (middle-class) conformity.
2001 Won "Vienna Film Award"
Jessica Hausner, Tied with Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2002).