No soy inocente

"Non Coupable" is ahead of its time in tone and themes: I got both Claude Chabrol and Twilight Zone vibes from it. What begins as a dark thriller has evolved by the end into a profoundly (and amusingly) ironic black comedy; the ending is just about perfect. Very strong performance by Michel Simon in the lead. Avoid plot spoilers. *** out of 4.

The description of a small town, a doctor whose life is mediocre, committed an deadly accident and begins to think about the perfect crime. The balack and white helps us to feel this dark story.

A very brillant performance of Michel Simon, one of the greatest actors of the beginning of the last century.

Another movie which i expected it was gonna be good, but it turned out to be even better.

First of all, i don't necessarily agree with some viewers that it's a black comedy. At times, it plays out like that but overall, it is a psychological drama thriller, a tragedy -not in an Ancient Greek sense but more like Edgar Allan Poe maybe. If i had to find something in common with Ancient Greek tragedies, it's the way the protagonist thinks he/she avoided "the spider" (their fate) but with every step they take, they are entangled even more in the web.

Michel Simon is expectedly magnificent, Jany Holt the same. The whole movie feels "fresh", timeless and not dated at all. It's both entertaining and deep. Exciting and intense.

And the ending was great. Even if you can guess where it goes, it's still awe-inspiring.

this movie has all it takes to be just another whodunit but once it starts you are in a journey of self discovering of a man aware of his capabilities but with a still growing notion of where he can go. but has more two qualities. the movie is perfect showing an incredibly intelligent man without any credibility. And yet show us a believable way for the perfect crime.

Most people in the town, and all of its circle of important men, see Dr Ancelin as a failure like Charles Bovary: a hopeless, provincial drudge who works twice as hard to achieve half as much. But Ancelin has no Emma at his side (indeed, he terrifies his mistress Madeline, who is also cheating on him). He relies on alcohol and self-pity to get through the day as he sinks ever lower in the esteem of most of his neighbors, and perhaps himself. A fatal accident caused by the inebriated doctor provides the catalyst for the film's plot, in the course of which the good doctor tries to rehabilitate himself, at least in his own eyes, by a series of murders.

The view of life and human nature is about as bleak as it gets. Michel Simon embodies Ancelin's unpredictable violence and loathing, both for himself and just about everyone around him. His style of acting, looser and more uninhibited, contrasts with the classical style of the rest of the cast and makes the point even more forcefully.

Like Henri-Georges Clouzot, Henri Decoin directed films in France during the occupation (though, unlike Clouzot, he was not prohibited from directing after the war). Films like Clouzot's 'The Raven' ('Le corbeau') and Decoin's 'Non coupable' explore the realities of life under occupation decades before France would begin to deal with them publicly. Things that try to stay hidden have a terrible cost.