Ben Croll Viewed in a certain light, the noirish romantic thriller “Lovers,” which premiered on Sept. 3 at the Venice Film Festival, could be seen as something of a change in pace for co-writer and director Nicole Garcia.A love-triangle potboiler about an unhappy woman, her wealthy older husband, and the bad-news ex-boyfriend she can’t leave behind, the Venice competition title takes standards from genre fiction and transmits them into intimate character drama toplined by actors Stacy Martin (“Nymphomaniac”), Pierre Niney (“Yves Saint Laurent”), and Benoît Magimel (“An Easy Girl”).“Even in my more overtly romantic films, I’ve always played with ideas of danger and fear, and tried to put the main characters at risk,” says Garcia, who signed.
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