Le Crime d'amour (1982)
Directed by Guy Gilles

Film Synopsis

Jean Doit, 20, discovers the body of a woman, stabbed to death, in an abandoned orchard which he has been in the habit of visiting to spend his idle hours.  This is was he tells the journalist Michel Naulet, who is intrigued by the mysterious young man.  Even though it isn't his metier, Michel decides to conduct his own investigation.  Meanwhile, the police have identified the victim as Jeanne Bontemps, a one-time singer whose speciality was love songs of the early 1900s.  Once, she enjoyed a certain celebrity.  Now she is all but forgotten.  Jean, the only witness, is the obvious murder suspect.  He is certainly behaving very suspiciously, lying, retracting his statements, even selling his story to the press.  What exactly is he after?  Is it possible that he could be the killer?  Michel soon discovers that the dead woman had a twin sister, Odette, who reveals that Jeanne and Jean used to meet up at the cinema.  Then Jean confronts Michel and confesses to the killing, but the journalist refuses to believe him.  If Jean is not the murderer, who is, and why is Jean so keen to put his own neck in the noose..?