Reaching for ‘Realistic,’ the Minds Behind ‘The Crime Is Mine’ Instead Produce a Patently False Film
Director François Ozon’s picture has the trappings of a screwball comedy and the patina of an MGM musical, albeit without the crispness of the former or the integrity of the latter.

French director François Ozon tasked cinematographer Manu Dacosse to watch a specific set of films before they started work on “The Crime Is Mine.” These included pictures by Sacha Guitry, a multi-faceted talent referred to by the Criterion Collection as the “Gallic Noël Coward,” and Ernst Lubitsch, the auteur behind sparkling entertainments like “Trouble in Paradise” and “Design for Living,” both from 1932.
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