I heard before on books about commissaire Jules Maigret and their multiple film adaptations. Neither of both I had familiarity. Movie with Gerard Depardieu made from forty-fifth book Maigret and the Young Dead (in literal English) of it’s author Georges Simenon, which was published in January 1954. A flick adaptation saves that period.
Maigret was staged by Patrice Leconte, a director of mostly comedies who very famous for Les Bronzes films (French Fried Vacation in English releases.). It’s film by an experienced director who narrates detective in vigor approach. Changing scenes, what one of elements of creation of that fast look, had inaccurate abrupt cut only two times. Leconte, who also was involved in scriptwriting, successfully gives place for investigation and to personal stuff with commissaire who with lost of interest such eating and personally his doctor says that he must quit with smoking and accelerate about retirement.
Gerard Depardieu, who usually acts in multiple films per year, never falsifies in Maigret. He shows a large personality and experience of personage. Overall acting on brilliant point. Just in little times was an unnatural behavior from Elizabeth Bourgine who played a dress renter.
Film is feeling to detectives of the past. Nothing modern was involved as it could be an awkward humor or putting of computer graphics. Whereas it’s a weak and definition of plainness in the story. As in many such compositions, an evidence, which should be in beginning, gives place at the end. Maigret is preposterous about that. A coroner should be fired if he didn’t find so obvious in the first autopsy. Although I know real cases, which all of them from England police, where wasn’t execute even a standard procedure, but unprofessionalism of coroner doesn’t indicate in Maigret. A murderer itself is disappointment by that it is not a big mystery and this case stays near to simplicity. Also Maigret will find out about rich people and their sick predilection, which should have a shock effect in time of writing had other tempers while it would be nothing unique in modern perverted world. By not elaborated way commissaire Maigret does in exposing the murderer when that person still could keep to no clue but makes a confession.
A French detective demonstrates one of defining of nation, which in kitchen. Even lost in eat wish Jules Maigret who it does for necessity doesn’t take a meal isn’t fitting for used alcohol drink as he says. The doctor suddenly says in the end that his lungs are so clear, what hints on allowance for smoking, and he pressures Maigret to have duck by describing specialty of it’s cooking. That, as any line, turns to primitive in conclusion.
