The Crime is Mine

15

Dir: François Ozon
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Michel Fau, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Dany Boon, Rebecca Marder
103 mins

French with English subtitles

Paris in the 1930s — a playground for industrial heirs and debonair architects, but the City of Lights does not shine evenly for all.

Struggling actress Madeleine (Nadia Terezkiewicz) and her best friend Pauline (Rebecca Marder), an unemployed lawyer, live in a cramped flat and owe five months’ rent. Opportunity knocks after a lascivious theatrical producer who made an inappropriate advance towards Madeleine turns up dead.

Madeleine stands trial for murder and ascends to decadent stardom, with Pauline serving as defense counsel and media circus ringmaster. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity awaits — until the truth comes out.

Adapted from a 1934 play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil and featuring a murder’s row of a supporting cast including Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, and Fabrice Luchini, The Crime Is Mine is a rollicking farce and scabrous satire with a wily feminist edge from one of French cinema’s most chameleonic stylists, François Ozon

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