It is the month of the detective invented by a literary great. First Kenneth Branagh lent his face to Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot and now Gérard Depardieu embodies Maigret, the Parisian inspector of the many novels by the unsurpassed Belgian writer Georges Simenon.
Maigret does not do wild chases; Maigret does empathy and questioning until the usually sad and sometimes banal facts become clear. In this sombre film, the colossus must find out the identity of a stabbed young woman, “a bird that fell out of the nest”, in order to solve the murder case. A bit old-fashioned but not outdated.
MAIGRET
FR, dir.: Patrice Leconte, act: Gérard Depardieu, Mélanie Bernier, André Wilms