The Crime Is Mine (2024)
The Regal Cinema’s World Cinema series presents the French frothy crime-comedy The Crime is Mine.
The film is a rollicking farce and scabrous satire with a wily feminist edge from one of French cinema’s most chameleonic stylists, François Ozon.
Set in 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.
This film will be shown in French with English subtitles.
“A lavish, briskly witty period romp”
Empire ★★★★
“Fabulously funny”
The Times ★★★★