The new 4K restoration of Jean Renoir's comedy/drama THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE, starring René Lefèvre, Florelle, and Jules Berry, and written by Jacques Prévert (
Port of Shadows,
Children of Paradise, etc.), will have its Los Angeles premiere at Laemmle's Royal Theatre in Los Angeles starting Wednesday, November 22.
After Amedée Lange's (Lefèvre) maliciously charming boss Batala (Berry) is presumed dead following his flight from debt collectors, Lange, with the assistance of his lover Valentine (Florelle), helps organize a community of workers into a cooperative publishing house for his hit Western serial "Arizona Jim." But when Batala returns from the dead, Lange must commit a grave crime to protect what they've built.
4K restoration from nitrate and safety elements, the internegative and a 35mm print, under the supervision of Studiocanal, with the support of the CNC. A Rialto Pictures release.
"PERFECTION! ONE OF RENOIR'S MOST COMPLETELY DELIGHTFUL MOVIES!" - Geoff Andrew,
Time Out (London)
"Of all Renoir's films, Monsieur Lange is the most spontaneous, the richest in miracles of camera work, the most full of pure beauty and truth. In short, it is a film touched by divine grace." - François Truffaut
Film Website:
http://www.rialtopictures.com/catalogue/the-crime-of-monsieur-lange
THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE is not rated; the running time is 83 minutes. In French; fully subtitled in English. Digital photos and press resources are at
http://www.rialtopictures.com/press-room/the-crime-of-monsieur-lange
(login information provided upon request)
For any further information, please contact Steve Indig at
steve@steveindigpr.com or 415.577.3656