Berkocinegoers at the Rex: The Crime Is Mine

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Rex review:
The Crime Is Mine
Prolific writer-director François Ozon’s playful comedy/thriller is simultaneously a throwback and decidedly modern.
Paris, 1935 and aspiring actress Madeleine (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) is struggling to find work to pay her half of the rent on the apartment she shares with best friend, and lawyer, Pauline (Rebecca Marder). Following an attempted rape by a big-time theatrical producer, she is accused of his murder. With Pauline’s help, she is acquitted on the grounds of self-defence but her new life of fame and success following the trial slowly begins to unravel.
A “Chicago”-like story of murder, scandal and celebrity, with some world-class scene-stealing from Isabelle Huppert tossed in, this frothy take on Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil’s vintage 1934 play, Mon Crime isn’t it’s first adaptation (1937’s screwball comedy True Confession and it’s 1946 remake Cross My Heart) but it’s undoubtedly it’s best.
Hyper-stylised and super-cynical, it’s Ozon’s way of addressing a strew of recent social crises; incessant lawfare, #MeToo and fake news, all of it compacted into a brilliant, perplexing farce. (Chris Coetsee)