Gaumont Légende Enterprises TF1 Films Production Canal+
Distributed by
Gaumont Buena Vista International
Release date
27 September 2000 (2000-09-27)
Running time
106 minutes
Country
France
Language
French
Budget
€14.4 million[1]
(US$25 million)[2]
Box office
$60 million[3]
The Crimson Rivers (French: Les Rivières pourpres) is a 2000 French psychological thriller film starring Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel. The film, which was directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, is based on the novel Blood Red Rivers by Jean-Christophe Grangé. The screenplay was written by Grangé and Mathieu Kassovitz.[4]
The film is about two detectives who investigate a series of grisly murders in and around an isolated university campus in a deep valley of the French Alps. With a $25 million budget, the movie went on to gross $60 million from a worldwide theatrical release.[3] Despite its box office success, one of its stars, Vincent Cassel, admitted, "I can't help explain the film because I didn't understand it! We cut out everything in the film that was explanatory, therefore 'boring' [according to the director]. You end up with a film that's not boring but you don't understand it [at] all".[5]
A sequel, Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse (Les Rivières pourpres II: Les Anges de l'apocalypse), was released in 2004 and a tv series sequel, titled The Crimson Rivers, aired in 2018.
^Lemercier, Fabien (23 September 2003). "Reno in the lair of the wolves". Cineuropa.
^Frater, Patrick (29 August 2003). "Gaumont lines up Reno for big-budget Empire". Screen International.
^ abJames, Alison (26 September 2002). "Magimel to travel 'Crimson Rivers 2'". Variety. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018.
^James, Alison (4 January 2004). "Kassovitz breaks out of French fare". Variety. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018.
^"Review – Les rivières pourpres/The crimson Rivers (2000)". movienthusiast.com. October 16, 2010. Archived from the original on December 23, 2014.
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