Maigret: Night at the Crossroads
Original title: Night at the Crossroads
- Episode aired Apr 16, 2017
- 1h 28m
Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.Maigret: Night at the Crossroads tells a complex tale of murder, deceit and greed set in an isolated country community.
- Awards
- 2 wins
Katherine Kanter
- Sarah Goldberg
- (as Catherine Kanter)
Kevin McNally
- Inspector Grandjean
- (as Kevin R McNally)
Joplin Sibtain
- Oscar
- (as Chook Sibtain)
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- TriviaA rather strong hint when this plot was taking place is shown around 34 minutes, where Maigret has a newspaper "Le Monde" placed on top of what looks like a calendar. You can only see a mirror image of writing through the paper that is turned and it states Octobre 1955.
- GoofsCarl and Else Anderson are arrested after arriving by train in Paris at the Gare D'Orsay. The Gare D'Orsay was closed in 1939. However, the story was published in 1931. Having a Jewish jeweller operating in an established Jewish quarter of Antwerp, including Hasidic elements of its population, would simply not have been possible in the early post-war era. Some of the clothing styles and the motor vehicles may be post-war, in which case the depiction of period is ambiguous.
- ConnectionsFollowed by Maigret: Maigret in Montmartre (2017)
- SoundtracksMaigret Sets a Trap
Performed by Samuel Sim feat. Tracy Kashi
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Beautiful but disappointing
Another wonderful story from Georges Simenon. The production team have got everything right down to the last detail. The garage full of old cars, the unmade roads, the shabby kitchen of the decaying mansion. The bizarre inhabitants, the girl who has to be locked in her room "for safety". But ultimately it's disappointing. Rowan Atkinson is a good Maigret, but he lacks the character's humour (which Michael Gambon had in spades). Atkinson is too solemn, and - fatally - the writers and director have made him soft-centred. He twinkles slightly at the girl, when she tries to seduce him, but in a melancholy way. Gambon would have flirted back. She is impressed that he doesn't respond, but merely treats her burned fingers. I feel this incident is not in the book (the writers needed a pretext to bring them closer), even though Simenon is always concerned about what characters eat and drink. (Maigret decides the girl needs some poached eggs – but surely Maigret can't cook?)
Madame Maigret is given a plonkingly 21st-century speech about the difficulty of being married to a policeman. Anachronistic, and also Cop Show Cliché No. 794.
And finally: the director loves filming characters in long shot while they are making a long speech full of plot exposition. And many young actors think that naturalism means keeping your face immobile. I turned on the subtitles.
Madame Maigret is given a plonkingly 21st-century speech about the difficulty of being married to a policeman. Anachronistic, and also Cop Show Cliché No. 794.
And finally: the director loves filming characters in long shot while they are making a long speech full of plot exposition. And many young actors think that naturalism means keeping your face immobile. I turned on the subtitles.
- lucyrfisher
- Jun 13, 2017
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