In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.
Acting
Depardieu's silent devastation—he barely speaks, you feel everything.
Cinematography
Shadow-drenched Paris that breathes 1950s existential dread.
Direction
Leconte's restraint lets grief accumulate like floodwater.
Director
Patrice Leconte
Gérard Depardieu
Jules Maigret
Anne Loiret
Madame Maigret
Aurore Clément
Laurent's mother
Mélanie Bernier
Jeannie
Jade Labeste
Betty
Clara Antoons
Louise
Pierre Moure
Laurent Clermont-Valois
Bertrand Poncet
Lapointe
Élisabeth Bourgine
Irène
Hervé Pierre
Doctor Paul
André Wilms
Kaplan
Philippe du Janerand
The judge
Jean-Paul Comart
Janvier
John Sehil
Cemetery employee
Norbert Ferrer
Boss of the cafe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Depardieu and Leconte hadn't worked together in 20 years; this reunion was Depardieu's idea after reading the Simenon novel.
Leconte deliberately avoided the BBC's popular Maigret series aesthetic, opting for drained color palettes that evoke French poetic realist cinema of the 1930s.
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