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My Crime,
the latest film by French director François Ozon, is a joyous comedy with an air of vaudeville that flows like a spring from the hand of a seeded cast, capable of moving between brilliant and devilish dialogues, and a plot with all the possible ingredients: murders, evictions, lovers, failed actresses, trials, sorority and a bit of Me Too.
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Two friends, an actress and a lawyer, played by Nadia Tereszkiewicz and Rebecca Marder, are on the brink of eviction when their lives become even more complicated when one of them ends up accused of the murder of a businessman and film producer.
What triggers the confession of that crime is a well-constructed madcap period comedy, capable of being as white and light on the surface as it is black on the bottom.
The prolific French filmmaker freely adapts a 1934 play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil that was already made into a Hollywood film in 1937 under the title
Sincere Confession
, with Carole Lombard in the skin of the confessed murderer and under the orders of Wesley Ruggles, the director of
I'm No Angel,
Mae West's classic.
Ozon frames
My Crime
in the trilogy that completes his two feminine comedies
Potiche.
Women in power,
from 2011, and
8 women,
from 2002, although this time the central issue is, above all, female friendship.
Set in a Paris that refers to classic cinema, Ozon manages to shine an intelligent artifice that not only transports the viewer to the past, but also to the dream of that past, as if within
My Crime
and its nods to
screwball comedy
there were dozens of comedies from another era that deal with the present, without gestures or stiff dialogues.
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The icing on the cake is served by guest star Isabelle Huppert as a decadent diva who could be somewhere between Cruella de Vil and Twilight of
the Gods
Gloria Swanson .
Ozon pulls the strings of his film so well that Huppert's fabulous and very funny presence does not outshine the rest of the cast.
On the contrary, they grow with it.
Perhaps the communion between the interpreters has one last reason for being:
My Crime
is also the story of how a very bad and unsuccessful actress finds the role of her life where she least expects it and, of course, embroiders it.
my crime
Directed by:
François Ozon.
Cast:
Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon.
Genre:
comedy.
France, 2022.
Duration:
102 minutes.
Premiere: May 5.
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