SummaryParis 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 theatric... Read More
Directed By:François Ozon
Written By:François Ozon, Philippe Piazzo, Georges Berr, Louis Verneuil
The Crime Is Mine
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91% Positive
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Dec 24, 2023
90
The Crime is Mine is the epitome of a comfort film, decked out in old-Hollywood nostalgia and unfolding at an auctioneer’s clip. Its fun and games are deceptively smart — all the more because the women know their angles so triumphantly well.
Oct 25, 2024
80
Though not as risk-taking as his earlier work, François Ozon’s fanfic for the Jazz Age steers clear of pastiche and is utterly charming — throwing a few curveballs to keep you on your toes.
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Dec 26, 2023
9
With a plot with several surprises up its sleeve, it works well as a tribute to the classic cinema of the 30's. Some of the best done by French cinema this year.
Jul 30, 2025
7
François Ozon brinca com a expectativa do expectador e dos filmes de investigação criminal, ao propor personagens dissimulados, caricatos e que vão reivindicar a autoria do crime (e não sua inocência), claro, para obter vantagens com isso. Chega ao absurdo de um confronto bem divertido, entre personagens, pela autoria. Visto desse modo é bem simplista, mas o texto está escrito de forma bem satisfatória para dar ótimas risadas, por mais que esperasse algo muito melhor em termos de resolução dos conflitos.
Nov 1, 2023
80
A willfully theatrical, proudly retro yet delectably pertinent confection.
Dec 19, 2023
75
It draws on the giddily rules-trampling pre-war mood as Chicago. But while its protagonists are as driven by a desire for fame and money as the amoral starlets of the Fred Ebb and Bob Fosse musical, the film has more than grinning cynicism at its core.
Oct 21, 2024
70
Tereszkiewicz and Marder delight as a double act, but it’s Huppert who steals the show with a cunning smile.
Jan 2, 2024
70
The movie is one of those pointed and prickly farces, like “8 Women” (2002) and “Potiche” (2011), that Ozon tends to scatter among his more solemn projects, as if to keep his comic hand in. The dramatis personae are boldly drawn and, let us say, broadly performed.
Dec 24, 2023
60
It’s a film less about any frenetic onscreen shenanigans as it is about its own mood board of sartorial and cinematic reference points — Jean Renoir, Billy Wilder, some vintage Chanel — and as such it slips down as fizzily and forgettably as a bottle of off-brand sparkling wine.
Oct 19, 2024
2
A flimsy scamper with quirky characters and that background music that urges us to be amused even when we are not. Not my cup of tea. So many films are in this ilk nowadays. Maybe I am just too old.
Production Company:
- Mandarin Films
- FOZ
- Gaumont
- France 2 Cinéma
- Playtime
- Scope Pictures
- Canal+
- Ciné+
- France Télévisions
- Arte Cofinova 19
- Cinémage 17
- SG Image 2021
- Indéfilms 11
- Palatine Étoile 20
- Cinéaxe 4
- La Banque Postale Image 16
- La Région Île-de-France
Release Date:Dec 25, 2023
Duration:1 h 42 m
Awards
César Awards, France
• 1 Nomination
International Film Music Critics Award (IFMCA)
• 1 Nomination
