M.AIGRET
Genre: yellow ✦✦ 1/2
Direction: Patrice Leconte. With Gérard Depardieu, Jade Labeste, Mélanie Bernier, Aurore Clément
Gérard Depardieu is the famous detective in Patrice Leconte’s film (photo by Pascal Chantier).
Maigret, an infallible policeman, is a matter for adults: Michel Simon, Charles Laughton, Jean Gabin, among others, measured themselves against it. It is the turn, but perhaps it was inevitable, of Gérard Depardieu.
Patrice Leconte (The unusual case of Mr. Hire) chooses Maigret and the dead girl (but does not follow the page to the letter), an accurate and crepuscular reconstruction and through the investigation into the murder of a young woman – the bloodstained evening dress – gives life to a small universe of secondary characters (all wonderful, from the milliner to the young woman that the investigator infiltrates the wolf’s lair) and of ghosts, which the pain of disappearance brings back to life.
Nostalgic cinema, not retro.
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