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Jean Renoir was the director of The Crime of Monsieur Lange, but this French film might just as well have been made in Hollywood by Frank Capra. The titular Lange (Rene Lefevre) is an author of wild west novels. When the owner of the company that publishes Lange's works absconds with the company funds, Lange rallies the employees together to create their own publishing house. The publisher returns, disguised as a priest, and demands a share of the profits. Lange responds by killing the bounder.
Jan 24, 1936 Wide
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It spins a loose and nondescript story, which ranges uncertainly between romantic comedy and solemn melodrama, about a publishing enterprise in which an author of cheap French Western fiction is the pivotal element.
Jacques Prevert's screenplay has wit and economy, but it is the multiplicity of points of view implied in Renoir's fluid direction that lifts the film from propaganda to art.
One of director Jean Renoir's most delightful comedies.
The film has some memorable characterizations and depicts adult situations with a much greater frankness than Hollywood was allowed at the time. Despite its clear moral exploration, however, the 78-minute running time is too brief for the film to become m
A clever Renoir film, with a decidedly anti-capitalist message.
Renoir's sanguine contribution to France's Popular Front.
One of Renoir's most completely delightful movies.
Rich and complex.
Fast, funny and loaded with charm, this is an unashamedly politically motivated film executed with all Renoir's trademark style.
Underrated musical that is defiantly political but in a surprisingly intimate and character-driven way.
fast-moving story about a child-man's fantasy life awaking his neighbors in solidarity; the bad guy's fantasy life becomes hiding in a priest costume & stealing
January 15, 2008Super Reviewer
An allegory, or a parable, but at the same time a charming comedy in that very French, Renoir style. A rogue, bully, scallywag Fascist publisher lords it over his writers and other staff, including M. Lange who writes "Arizona Jim" stories. When he is killed in a train accident, the workers form a cooperative and
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