French ‘The Crime Is Mine’ Is Committed to Digital Feb. 13; DVD March 26

Director François Ozon’s latest — which achieved a 98 percent rating at Rotten Tomatoes — arrives February 13 on Digital, on DVD March 26

With alluring razzmatazz, The Crime is Mine and its superlative stars will seduce farce lovers and Francophiles — Rotten Tomatoes

Poster for The Crime is Mine

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.

Directed by François Ozon

Screenplay by François Ozon

Freely adaptedfrom the play Mon Crime (1934) by Georges Berr & Louis Verneuil

In collaboration withPhilippe Piazzo

Starring

Madeleine Verdier : Nadia Tereszkiewicz
Pauline Mauléon : Rebecca Marder
Odette Chaumette : Isabelle Huppert
Judge Rabusset : Fabrice
Luchini Palmarède : Dany Boon
Mr. Bonnard : André Dussollier
André Bonnard : Édouard Sulpice
Mr. Brun : Régis Laspalès
Trapu : Olivier Broche
Gilbert Raton : Félix Lefebvre
Pistole : Franck De Lapersonne
Simone Bernard : Evelyne Buyle
The Public Prosecutor : Michel Fau
The Presiding Judge : Daniel Prevost
Madame Jus : Myriam Boyer
Montferrand : Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Céleste : Suzanne De Baecque
Madame Alvarez : Lucia Sanchez
Émile Bouchard : Jean-Claude Bolle-Reddat
Head Waiter : Dominique Besnehard
Bonnard’s Secretary : Anne-Hélène Orvelin
Newsreel Voice : Georges Becot

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