In 2002, April in Paris took a walk on the dark side of human nature with crime et cinema, a festival that explored filmmakers' fascination with desecrating the laws of society, from the days of silent cinema to today. Each film in the festival looked at crime from a different lens: gangland murder, class warfare, the crime of colonialism, teenage crime sprees and the unspeakable terror of a fantôme who lurks through the streets of Paris in the night...

April in Paris 2002 film list :

Fantomas by Louis Feuillade(1913)  with Reception after the show

Bob Le Flambeur - Bob the Gambler by Jean-Pierre Melville (1955)

Bande à Part - Band of Outsiders by Jean-Luc Godard (1964)

Camp de Thiaroye by Ousmane Sembene (1987)
Presented Professor Samba Gadjigo from Mount Holyoke College. 

La Cérémonie - The Ceremony by Claude Chabrol (1996)

Plein Soleil - Purple Noon by René Clément (1960)

Les Diaboliques - Diaboliques by Henri-Georges Clouzot (1955)

Le Fils du Requin - Son of the Shark by Agnès Merlet (1994) followed by a reception sponsored by Pastis in the lobby of Cinestudio

Les Blessures Assassines by Jean-Pierre Denis (2000)
Presented by Professor Ron Thomas from Trinity College