Five-star casting to adapt the latest Fred Vargas, with even Emmanuel Carrère writing the screenplay. But curiously, this little theater in two acts rings particularly false.
By Michel Bezbakh
Published on October 18, 2024 at 8:00 a.m.
Aith his slightly pulled-up black cap and his cop’s face who’s been around a lot, he looks like Al Pacino in Serpico, Yvan Attal. Except that he plays Commissioner Adamsberg by Fred Vargas, and investigates murders in Louviec, in Brittany. It’s not Manhattan, and fortunately, because although we stay within a small area, it’s going to take us three hours to find the culprit. In the book, it was more than five hundred pages, so it’s still more profitable to spend two evenings watching France 2, even if we wouldn’t go so far as to recommend it. Come on, if you look carefully, it’s not fundamentally impossible to find two or three reasons to do it: Brittany, a few touches of humor, “but who could possibly be the culprit? “, the very honorable performance of Yvan Attal as Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. Hey, that’s four. Alas, we must add a fifth, less flattering one: we can also watch this TV film in two parts, the second of which will be broadcast next Monday, to realize that it is possible to align the right actors on a scenario of ‘Emmanuel Carrère directed by Josée Dayan and obtaining a sort of boring filmed theater, very visually indigestible, where everything rings false.
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