Le crime est notre affaire (2008)

Note Générale:

6,5/10   

Réalisateur:

Pascal Thomas

Scénaristes:

François Caviglioli (screenplay)
Agatha Christie (subject)

Date de sortie:

15 octobre 2008 (France)

Genre:

Comedie | Crime

Intrigue:

Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course! |

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Coffin | Christmas Dinner | Christmas Food | Maid

Récompenses:

2 nominations

Avis des utilisateurs:

When mystery meets screwball comedy

Ensemble

Catherine Frot	...	Prudence Beresford
André Dussollier	...	Le colonel Bélisaire Beresford
Claude Rich	...	Roderick Charpentier
Chiara Mastroianni	...	Emma Charpentier
Melvil Poupaud	...	Frédéric Charpentier
Alexandre Lafaurie	...	Raphaël Charpentier
Christian Vadim	...	Augustin
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Le docteur François Lagarde
Yves Afonso	...	L'inspecteur Blache
Annie Cordy	...	Babette Boutiti
Valériane de Villeneuve	...	Mme Clairin (as Valérianne de Villeneuve)
Marie-Lorna Vaconsin	...	Madame Valois (as Marie Lorna)
Laura Benson	...	Margaret Brown
Florence Maury	...	Diane
Agathe Hazard	...	La domestique congédiée

Autre(s) titre(s):

Crime Is Our Business (Hong Kong: English title)

Durée:

109 min

Pays:

France

Langue:

Français

Couleur:

Couleur

Classification:

Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva)

Société:

Les Films Français

Goofs:

micro visible: When Emma Charpentier (Chiara Mastroianni) and Doctor Lagarde (Hippolyte Girardot) kiss for the first time, we can see the boom mic in the window pane behind them.

Connexions:

version de Agatha Christie Marple: 4.50 from Paddington (2004) (TV)

Bande son:

Sway

When mystery meets screwball comedy

This is the third Agatha Christie adaptation (and second featuring Tommy and Tuppence) by Pascal Thomas and his best to-date.

Thomas is at the top of his art when he can combine mystery and sophisticated comedy, which is the case once again in 'Le Crime est notre affaire', a loose adaptation of '4.50 From Paddington' in which Miss Marple has been replaced by Tommy and Tuppence. The mystery is exciting (a murder without a corpse) but as was the case with 'Mon petit doigt m'a dit' the pleasure also comes from the offbeat atmosphere, the strange locations , the impeccable cast with the right talented actor or actress in the right place (special kudos to Claude Rich as the old stingy pain in the neck).

The icing on the cake is the brilliant dialog, filled with witty one-liners, exchanged by a wonderful couple of modern Myrna Loy-William Powells (I mean of course the marvelous Catherine Frot and André Dussolier), as the eccentric bickering-but-loving couple of amateur sleuths.

An entertainment of very good quality.