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Francois Ozon’s ‘The Crime Is Mine’ Unveils Trailer; Music Box to Release the 1930s Screwball Comedy in the U.S. (EXCLUSIVE)

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Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Music Box Films has dropped the trailer for “The Crime Is Mine,” François Ozon’s screwball comedy set in 1930s Paris starring Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Rebecca Marder and Isabelle Huppert.

A showbiz caper with a feminist edge in the vein of Ozon’s “8 Women” and “Potiche,” “The Crime Is Mine” will open in New York on Dec.

25, followed by Los Angeles and a national expansion. Tereszkiewicz, who won a César award for best newcomer for her performance in “Forever Young,” stars as a struggling actress, Madeleine, who lives with her best friend, Pauline (Marder), an unemployed lawyer, in a cramped flat.

Opportunity knocks after a lascivious theatrical producer who made an inappropriate advance toward Madeleine turns up dead. Madeleine admits to the crime and is acquitted on the grounds of self-defense — and in result becomes a star, as well as a feminist icon. “The Crime Is Mine” was freely adapted by Ozon from a 1934 play by Georges Berr and Louis Verneuil.

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