國影電影編號：M202206016

放映規格：DCP

級別：輔導12級

片長：84分鐘

發音：法語

字幕：中英文

朗吉先生的罪行 Le Crime de Monsieur Lange

Jean Renoir 尚．雷諾瓦 | B&W | DCP | 1936 | 法語 French | 84 mins

朗吉先生身為一名出版社職員，在庸碌的生活中仍懷有寫作及繪畫的理想。然而，打破他平凡生活的是因貪汙而意外消失的老闆，使得原是勞工的朗吉先生當上資方的臨時代表。眾人為維持營運並肩努力，除了讓這垂垂欲墜的工廠改頭換新，更為了每個人明日的生活。然而原資方其實沒死，狡詐重返的老闆收回一切，甚至貪婪的想佔據更多。名字中帶有「天使」雙關的朗吉先生不得不為眾人努力的心血、以及保護自己心愛的情人而犯下「罪行」。

本片可與二年前的《托尼》相呼應，導演帶著濃厚的左翼人道主義，拍攝這部喜劇般的犯罪故事。男人在凱旋門前騎乘單車的搖曳畫面、黑暗中以長鏡頭展現的犯罪懸疑感，可看出其場面調度更加豐富嫻熟。作為抵抗資本主義壓榨的作品，哀愁中卻充滿奮力一搏的力道。

Amédée Lange, works as a clerk for a publishing company, while writing pulp Western novels in his free time. Batala, the unscrupulous company owner, swindles employees and seduces female workers. But after falling prey to creditors, he fakes his own death in a train crash. With Batala gone, the workers form a cooperative and have great success with Lange’s novels. Until Batala returns and demands a slice of the profits.

Once again, Renoir channels his Popular Front credentials in this story of labor conflicts and workers’ emancipation at a time when Fascist groups were gaining popularity in France. According to François Truffaut: “Monsieur Lange is, of all Renoir’s films, the most spontaneous, the richest in miracles of camera work, and the most full of pure beauty and truth. In short, it is a film touched by divine grace.”