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The Crime of Monsieur Lange [VHS]

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Monsieur Lange is a simple story. It deals with an execrable human being who maintains a negative tension state around an office, until the walls of the human patience finally fall down with the expected consequences.

Fiction and reality will be narrowly bounded in this original script which concerns with the honor and self steem of all human being under determined conditions. Exquisite and ravishing movie that deserves to be considered among the most representative isues of this overwhelming French director.

Go for this , you will enjoy the whole script and besides the admirable technique of Renoir style.

Besides, (if any shadow of doubt it could exist about the grandness of Jean Renoir and his huge influence over so many major and minor future directors) you must always remember and not forget that Toni, a lost film from 1934 is the first issue of this movement named Neo Realism, mistakenly applied to Roselini and De Sica. This film was the first one and somehow the real Godafther of the later movement!

Hiram Gomez.

Here's the story of "Arizona Jim"-- well, maybe not, but the young French author of the very popular cowboy stories is our hero, and we find out if he can live up to the heroics of his dime-novel creation. This light-as-air masterpiece from Renoir needs to be given the full Criterion treatment-- it's an equal to "The Grand Illusion" and "Rules of the Game" and Clair's "Le Million," starring the same actor. All lovers of film will enjoy it.

Although much less known than his masterpieces Regle du Jeu and Grande Illusion, Renoir's Crime de M. Lange is truly a great movie. Lange, a young publishing clerk with too much imagination, pens laughably awful American Westerns in his spare time. His friends at the firm include a beautiful set of quirky and diverse characters. Together, they oppose their corrupt and lecherous boss in a none too subtle political message from Renoir. With an appropriately tender style, he paints light humor and poignant emotions as the workers struggle together.