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I took a brief respite from the frantic pace of the year-end holidays to enjoy this Francois Ozon comedy from 2023.
It's 1930s Paris, a city obsessed with celebrities and scandals. Madeleine Verdier is a struggling actress, her roommate Pauline Mauleon is a struggling lawyer. Together they owe the landlord 3,000 francs-- or maybe 1,000 francs, depending on negotiations. Madeleine has just returned from a particularly bad audition-turned-casting couch offer when a detective knocks on their door: it seems the producer Madeleine has just escaped from is now a dead producer, shot in the head about the time she left him. She is now the chief suspect.
Facing a buffoonish investigating judge and an institutionally misogynistic justice system, Madeleine and Pauline hatch a plan to use the circus-like trial to launch their careers. Isabelle Huppert bursts onto the scene at the halfway mark, as a faded star who knows the truth.
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| Nadia Tereszkiewicz (L) as Madeleine, and Rebecca Marder (R) as Pauline. With Olivier Broche (far L) and Fabrice Luchini. |
NOTE
The press portrays Madeleine's trial as the next Violette Noziere case (35'36"), referring to the 1934 trial of a young woman charged with murdering her father. Violette's defense claimed incest; she received the death sentence, which was reduced, and she was freed in 1945.
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