Crime de Monsieur Lange, Le 1936

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: It spins a loose and nondescript story, which ranges uncertainly between romantic comedy and solemn melodrama, about a publishing enterprise in which an author of cheap French Western fiction is the pivotal element. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Jacques Prevert's screenplay has wit and economy, but it is the multiplicity of points of view implied in Renoir's fluid direction that lifts the film from propaganda to art. Read more

Geoff Andrew, Time Out: One of Renoir's most completely delightful movies. Read more