Just days after the film’s premiere in Paris, the French director reveals more about his new comedy with a prime cast and an atmosphere inspired by Paris in the 1930s. Freely echoing the #metoo movement, this feelgood film by François Ozon is already seducing across the Atlantic.
Inspired by the 1934 play imagined by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, My crime Where The Crime Is Mine in English, traces the story of an actress in the making, accused of having killed a film producer. The latter, helped by an unemployed lawyer friend, will finally be acquitted by the courts before becoming a very popular feminist icon. A beautiful line-up of French actors will respond. Among others, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, André Dussolier, Dany Boon and Félix Lefebvre will perform under the eye and camera of François Ozon. Two others great hopes of French cinemaNadia Tereszkiewicz and Rebecca Marder will also be part of this journey through time in 1930s Paris.
The director who chose them when they were not yet known explains that he wanted to recreate on screen a very special chemistry between the two young girls. Surrounded by white characters, in their fifties or more, trying to seduce them, they must fight their way to glory in this unhealthy and dangerous environment. The film which will be released in cinemas in France on March 8 – the date of Women’s Rights Day – is intended to be feminist and powerful.
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The shadow of #metoo hanging over this film
A comedy to convey a strong and universal message is François Ozon’s bet for his new film. Several years after her two other feminist feature films, entitled 8 Women and Vase, My crime addresses sensitive and contemporary themes under thezany angle. If the film is successful from a humorous point of view, it goes without saying that it is difficult not to think, when watching it, of the #metoo movement.
The #metoo movement, launched in the United States in 2007, was widely publicized in 2017 after several successive complaints were filed against the famous American producer Harvey Weinstein. In France, it was under the name #balancetonporc, that a similar movement was born.
Source : variety.com
