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The Crime of Monsieur Lange (pronounced [mə.sjø lɑ̃ʒ]; French: Le Crime de Monsieur Lange) is a 1936 French drama film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative. Imbued with the spirit of the communist/socialist Popular Front, which would score a major political victory in 1936, the film is an idyllic picture of a socialist France and is both a social commentary and a romance.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange: Directed by Jean Renoir. With René Lefèvre, Florelle, Jules Berry, Marcel Lévesque. The boss of a publishing company is a womanizer and a jerk, but what would happen if he suddenly disappeared?
Dec 6, 2019 · “The most humane film ever made about killing your boss” is how one reviewer describes this film. Though not as well known as other Renoir films—The Grand Illusion (1937), Rules of the Game (1939), The River (1951)—The Crime of Monsieur Lange was much admired by Orson Welles, who considered Renoir the greatest of all directors. Welles ...
This film, The Crime of Monsieur Lange, is not one of the man's best films; but it's still a more than adequate example of French film-making in the 1930's. Adapted from a story by Jean Castanyer ...
Mar 27, 2005 · And The Crime of Monsieur Lange is an exemplum of this skill with unsurpassed charm to boot. Jacques Prévert’s screenplay is so light on its feet, so “French,” what with its whimsy and deep romance and periodic invocations of the spirit of “liberté, égalité, fraternité.” This is the sort of film that leaves one, smiling, with the ...
Dec 6, 2011 · The Crime of Monsieur Lange, a 1935 film directed by Jean Renoir. [bright music] The movie is set in a working class neighborhood in Paris. where Amédée Lange, a small time employee.
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Nov 15, 2017 · “The Crime of Monsieur Lange” opened belatedly in New York on a bill with Robert Bresson’s austere melodrama “Les Dames du Bois de Boulogne,” made in 1944.
For a film so resolute in its efforts to portray an idealized community based on mutuality and shared concern, in the end, Le Crime de Monsieur Lange sends us careening. Full Review | Nov 16, 2017
The Crime of Monsieur Lange. ... The titular crime is a murder committed by Amédée Lange (René Lefèvre), a low-level publishing employee and a naïve dreamer whose pulp fiction is a hit. His ...
