Mon crime (2023)
(The Crime Is Mine)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, André Dussollier
Synopsis:
An impecunious actress has an upsetting casting couch encounter and, when it transpires that the producer in question has been found shot, cheerfully confesses to the crime and has her lawyer roommate defend her in court.
Review:
Ozon's ponderous period piece is based on a 1930s farce by Berr and Verneuil, with dollops of American screwball thrown in, rather in the manner of See How They Run (2022, not the play). He reconceives it as a story about sorority, with not a few feminist sops thrown in, and unfortunately elicits nary a titter, excepting perhaps Olivier Broche's turn as the clerk of the examining magistrate. Doubtless it is all too theatrical and preachy, as if His Girl Friday were directed by George Stevens.
(The Crime Is Mine)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, André Dussollier
Synopsis:
An impecunious actress has an upsetting casting couch encounter and, when it transpires that the producer in question has been found shot, cheerfully confesses to the crime and has her lawyer roommate defend her in court.
Review:
Ozon's ponderous period piece is based on a 1930s farce by Berr and Verneuil, with dollops of American screwball thrown in, rather in the manner of See How They Run (2022, not the play). He reconceives it as a story about sorority, with not a few feminist sops thrown in, and unfortunately elicits nary a titter, excepting perhaps Olivier Broche's turn as the clerk of the examining magistrate. Doubtless it is all too theatrical and preachy, as if His Girl Friday were directed by George Stevens.
(The Crime Is Mine)
Country: FR
Technical: col/2.35:1 102m
Director: François Ozon
Cast: Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Fabrice Luchini, Isabelle Huppert, Dany Boon, André Dussollier
Synopsis:
An impecunious actress has an upsetting casting couch encounter and, when it transpires that the producer in question has been found shot, cheerfully confesses to the crime and has her lawyer roommate defend her in court.
Review:
Ozon's ponderous period piece is based on a 1930s farce by Berr and Verneuil, with dollops of American screwball thrown in, rather in the manner of See How They Run (2022, not the play). He reconceives it as a story about sorority, with not a few feminist sops thrown in, and unfortunately elicits nary a titter, excepting perhaps Olivier Broche's turn as the clerk of the examining magistrate. Doubtless it is all too theatrical and preachy, as if His Girl Friday were directed by George Stevens.