Criminal Lovers

Added mention of film's connection to 'New French Extremity' with citations.

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[[Elvis Mitchell]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' had criticized the film, writing that "it never develops a life of its own" because of "[its] amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/072100criminal-film-review.html|last=Mitchell|first=Elvis|authorlink=Elvis Mitchell|title='Criminal Lovers': Wise Up, Bonnie and Clyde: You're No Babes in the Woods|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 July 2000}}</ref> [[Elvis Mitchell]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'' had criticized the film, writing that "it never develops a life of its own" because of "[its] amalgam of fairy tales, old movies and tabloid stories".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/film/072100criminal-film-review.html|last=Mitchell|first=Elvis|authorlink=Elvis Mitchell|title='Criminal Lovers': Wise Up, Bonnie and Clyde: You're No Babes in the Woods|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=21 July 2000}}</ref>
The film has been cited as an example of the [[New French Extremity]] cycle.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-15 |title=François Ozon on his assisted-suicide drama Everything Went Fine: “The film is like a thriller” |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/francois-ozon-assisted-suicide-everything-went-fine |access-date=2026-04-20 |website=BFI |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=West |first=Alexandra |title=Films of the New French Extremity: Visceral Horror and National Identity |publisher=McFarland & Company |year=2016 |isbn=9781476663487 |location=North Carolina, USA |pages=93-103}}</ref>

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