The Crime Is Mine

The Crime Is Mine is a 2023 French crime comedy film directed by François Ozon starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder, Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini, Dany Boon, and André Dussollier. Set in the 1930s, the film follows an actress who gains notoriety after getting acquitted of murder for self-defense. It is a loose adaptation of the 1934 play Mon crime by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, which has been adapted into two American films, True Confession (1937) and Cross My Heart (1946). Cast Nadia Tereszkiewicz as Madeleine Verdier Rebecca Marder as Pauline Mauléon Isabelle Huppert as Odette Chaumette Fabrice Luchini as Richter Gustave Rabusset Dany Boon as Palmarède André Dussollier as M. Bonnard Régis Laspalès Olivier Broche Félix Lefebvre Michel Fau Daniel Prévost Evelyne Buyle Myriam Boyer Franck de Lapersonne Production Ozon conceived of the film during the COVID-19 lockdowns. He described it as being "ultimately about the triumph of sorority". He said, "it ends with a play in the tradition of Jean Renoir. It's also a playful reference to The Last Metro by François Truffaut". Huppert's character was based on the actress Sarah Bernhardt. Other influences included "American screwball comedies from the 1930s", particularly films by Ernst Lubitsch and Frank Capra, as well as "the Paris of the 1930s viewed by the Americans, as in the film Victor/Victoria by Blake Edwards". Filming took place from April to June 2022, in and around Paris and in Charleroi and Brussels, Belgium.