Une affaire française

This is not a documentary but a fiction based on real facts and which tells of a failure of the French justice in a case of child murder, and the media and legal storm that shook an entire family and public opinion almost as much as the murder of the child, and which no one living at the time will ever be able to completely forget. The French know how to make TV films and prove it once again: this one, in 4 episodes, is very well scripted, very well directed and very well played by excellent sober and sensitive actors. The TV movie, which obviously cannot cover all the facts and multiple twists and turns of the affair up to the present day as well as a Wikipedia page, is an excellent synthesis very respectful towards the protagonists of the affair whose many are, 37 years after the fact, still alive. Everything is not completely dark in this TV movie as it also presents with great modesty part of the story of remarkable and exemplary marital love.