Etiket: Simenon
Should we reread… Georges Simenon? | The duty
Some authors seem immortal, others sink into oblivion. After a while, what’s left? In its monthly series Should we reread…?, The duty revisits one of these writers with the help…
Gérard Depardieu finds Fanny Ardant in “Les Volets Verts”, adapted from Simenon
Six months after playing Commissioner Maigret in front of Patrice Leconte’s camera, actor Gérard Depardieu embodies a new character by Georges Simenon, this time in a non-detective novel: that of…
Maigret | Patrice Leconte revisits Simenon
With 550,000 admissions in France for Maigrethis new adaptation of a novel by Simenon, with Gérard Depardieu in the title role, Patrice Leconte returns to success in the cinema. The…
French filmmaker Patrice Leconte returns to Simenon with “Maigret”
Taciturn, but with a sharp eye, Maigret is the protagonist of dozens of novels with often very dark plots. That of Maigret and the dead girl is no exception, although…