The final clapperboard is slamming on The Crime is Mine [+lee también:
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Mum’s the word then, for this film which started shooting in April with a cast spearheaded by Isabelle Huppert (who’s linking back up with the director for the first time since 8 Women in 2002), Rebecca Marder, Dany Boon (hugely popular with audiences since Welcome to the Sticks [+lee también:
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entrevista: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
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Written by François Ozon, the screenplay is being kept under wraps for the time being, but the story is said to unfold in 1935. The project’s French working title Mon crime hints that the film is an adaptation of the play of the same name by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil, which begins with the murder of a Parisian banker. The inspector leading the investigation questions all those who approached the victim on the day of the murder. Madeleine, a penniless and unknown woman of letters, is the last to have seen her. She’s innocent, but she nonetheless seizes this opportunity for a bit of publicity and takes responsibility for the crime. After being acquitted, her life is transformed with money and fame. But then the real guilty party turns themselves in, frustrated that someone else is profiting from their crime in this way...

We await the film to confirm or invalidate the above hypothesis, which the director’s taste for secrecy has forced us to devise.

A regular face at all the major festivals, François Ozon has been selected six times in competition in Berlin (in 2000, 2002, 2007, 2009, 2019, and this year via Peter von Kant [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] which will be released in France on 6 July), four times in Cannes (in 2003, 2013, 2017 and last year via Everything Went Fine), three times in Venice (2004, 2010 and 2016) and three times in San Sebastian (in 2009, 2012 and 2014).

Produced by Éric and Nicolas Altmayer on behalf of Mandarin and FOZ (the filmmaker’s own firm), Madeleine is notably co-produced by Belgian outfit Scope Pictures. The feature film is pre-purchased by Canal+ and will be distributed in French cinemas by Gaumont. Filming unfolded in Paris, the Paris region and in Belgium (in Charleroi and Brussels) with Belgium’s Manuel Dacosse heading up photography. International sales are steered by Playtime.

For the record, Mandarin are set to release Michel Leclerc’s Not My Type [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] on 22 June, Ivan Calbérac’s La Dégustation [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] on 31 August (starring Bernard Campan and Isabelle Carré in its cast), Malik Bentalha and Ludovic Colbeau-Justin’s Jack Mimoun et les secrets de Val Verde [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] on 26 October, all in French cinemas. The firm also boasts Ziad Doueiri’s series Cœurs noirs in post-production (produced by Amazon Prime Video and France Télévisions).