Directed by François Ozon | 103 mins | 2023
Who says crime doesn’t pay? For Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz), the struggling actress at the center of Ozon’s fizzy, screwball-channeling caper, confessing to a murder she didn’t commit proves to be a canny career move. When she lands a plum role in a theater production, the actual murderer—a former silent film star played with dippy verve by the incomparable Isabelle Huppert—grows envious of Madeleine’s ill-gotten notoriety.