Céline Bonnier is dangerously close to a Gemini award thanks to her role as a combative and dysfunctional mother in the miniseries A criminal casethe new high-caliber detective offering that the Crave platform will offer from March 23rd.
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The talented actress portrays a mother who has been exhausted for 15 years rehabilitating her 35-year-old son, imprisoned for a murder he (supposedly) did not commit.
This pugnacious and obsessed woman is called Catherine Godin. She curses, loses her temper and drinks a lot. “A mad estie”, will say his enemies. She’s the type of broken mother who lost everything – job, spouse and friends – by continuing her fight, alone against Goliath.
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Alexandre (Maxime-Olivier Potvin) and his mother Catherine Godin (Céline Bonnier) in A criminal case
Never the exhausting Catherine, 54, never gives up or doubts the innocence of her son Alexandre (Maxime-Olivier Potvin), whom the police of Saint-Bruno trapped, then accused in the assassination of the son of the mayor , whose body was found at the construction site of a condo project.
This bushy, twisting story, crafted by the team behind the excellent series Miscellaneous facts of Radio-Canada, begins in the fall of 2021. Two agents from the Bureau of Independent Investigations, camped by Marie Turgeon and Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon, question Catherine about the famous tragic night of June 2005, the starting point of this complex story and carried by intriguing characters.
During a drunken end-of-year party, several young people from Saint-Bruno, on the South Shore, were involved in a serious road accident, which had serious consequences. No spoilers here, rest assured.
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The two agents of the Office of Independent Investigations are played by Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon and Marie Turgeon.
A few months after this tragedy, the driver Jérémie Parenteau (Alexandre Bacon), who was driving drunk, in addition to carrying cocaine in his pockets, was murdered and the fingerprints of Alex, Catherine’s son, were found. were found on the murder weapon. This proof was enough for the police, pressed by the mayor to close the file, to send Alex behind bars.
The rest would be difficult to summarize without getting involved.
But know this: as in the current plot of District 31 on the murder of an investigator’s daughter, A criminal case puts his magnifying glass on a corrupt local police force run by “old school” cops.
Among them, there is the viscous Gilbert Lalande (Bobby Beshro), a specialist in round corners. There’s Marcel Dorais (Raymond Bouchard), who locked up young Alex in 2005. And there’s Bob Landry (Marc Messier), a mystery detective who “knows things.”
And to further complicate the picture, Bing sleeps with Catherine, the defendant’s mother, which places him in a conflict of interest in this voluminous file.
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Agent Benoit Inglis, alias Bing (Louis-Philippe Dandenault), has an affair with Catherine, Alexandre’s mother.
The second main character ofA criminal case is called Benoit Inglis, dit Bing (Louis-Philippe Dandenault). A policeman himself, Bing is the son of one of the Saint-Bruno investigators (Roger Léger) involved in the conviction of poor Alex.
Every detail counts in A criminal case. You have to be super attentive and not check your phone during the eight one-hour episodes. Joanne Arseneau’s text is dense and the tone turns out to be more serious than the tragicomic one of Miscellaneous facts.
For the dark look, consider Defending Jacob from Apple TV+, where two parents (Michelle Dockery and Chris Evans) wondered if their 14-year-old had killed his bully with a hunting knife.
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Marc Messier and Roger Léger play two investigators in A criminal case.
The distribution ofA criminal case throw it away. You will also find Pascale Desrochers, who plays the sister of Catherine, owner of a delicatessen. Madeleine Péloquin plays a slightly square, slightly cheesy regional weekly journalist. And Anglesh Major interprets a policeman who will try to see clearly in this fog of shenanigans.
The first four episodes will land on Crave on Wednesday, March 23, and the final four will appear the following week. It’s very good television, punctuated with nice touches of humor. Already, a second season ofA criminal case is concocted. It will not be a sequel, because the investigation ends in the eighth episode, but another dormant affair (a cold box) to be solved, by a different team.
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