Joseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson, who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
Direction
Podalydès treats the absurd with deadpan reverence
Acting
Denis Podalydès's Rouletabille: boyish arrogance weaponized
Production
Gothic château production design that winks at its own silliness
Director
Bruno Podalydès
Denis Podalydès
Joseph Rouletabille
Jean-Noël Brouté
Sainclair
Claude Rich
Le juge De Marquet
Scali Delpeyrat
Le greffier
Sabine Azéma
Mathilde Stangerson
Michael Lonsdale
Stangerson
Julos Beaucarne
Le père Jacques
Olivier Gourmet
Robert Darzac
Pierre Arditi
Inspecteur Frédéric Larsan
Isabelle Candelier
Madame Bernier
Dominique Parent
Monsieur Bernier
George Aguilar
Petit-Pied, le garde-chasse
Patrick Ligardes
Patrick Ligardes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gaston Leroux wrote this in 1907, years before creating Phantom of the Opera. The locked-room genre basically STARTED here.
Bruno Podalydès cast his brother Denis as Rouletabille, continuing their collaboration of brainy, bickering French cinema that nobody else was making.
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