April In Paris Film Festival – The Crime of Monsieur Lange

Director: Jean Renoir

1936, France, 83, NR

Screenwriter: Jacques Prévert

Cast: René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Sylvia Bataille, Nadia Sibirskaïa, Marcel Lévesque, Odette Talazac, Maurice Baquet, Henri Guisol, Jacques-Bernard Brunius, Sylvain Itkine, Edmond Beauchamp, Marcel Duhamel, & René Génin.

 

“PERFECTION! ONE OF RENOIR’S MOST COMPLETELY DELIGHTFUL MOVIES!”
— Geoff Andrew, Time Out London

“Of all Renoir’s films Monsieur Lange is the most spontaneous, the richest in miracles of camera work, the most full of pure beauty and truth. In short, it is a film touched by divine grace.” — François Truffaut

“PERHAPS THE MOST DELIGHTFUL OF RENOIR’S FILMS…WITH ITS SPLENDID 4K RESTORATION, MONSIEUR LANGE LOOKS BRAND-NEW. GIVEN ITS EMPHASIS ON THE PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF POWERFUL MEN AND THE PRECARIOUSNESS OF THE JOURNALISTIC PROFESSION, IT IS AS TOPICAL AS ANY MOVIE MADE THIS YEAR, AND A GOOD DEAL FUNNIER THAN MOST.” — J. HOBERMAN, THE NEW YORK TIMES