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TUESDAY | OCT 24 | 2:00 PM | FH
A seeming trifle of a comedy that manages to be subversive, feminist, utterly amoral, and completely delightful, Francois Ozon’s The Crime Is Mine embraces, in the words of its director, “the triumph of sorority.” In 1935 Paris, debt-ridden actress Madeline (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) rebuffs a lascivious producer, who ends up dead. Accused of the crime and defended by her lawyer/roommate Pauline (Rebecca Marder)…well, why give away too much? The mid-film appearance of Isabelle Huppert as the Cruella-DeVille-ish actress Odette Chaumette is a gift from the movie gods. According to Ozon, the movie’s influences include Truffaut’s The Last Metro, Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria, and the elegant comedies of Ernst Lubitsch and Jean Renoir. The era – at least, the movie version of that era – is sumptuously recreated through its sets, props and costumes. ~SM