Maigret chez les Flamands
- Episode aired Jan 5, 1992
- 1h 23m
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Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.
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- GoofsWhen Maigret is first in his hotel room interviewing Joseph Peeters, a modern telephone can be heard ringing in the background.
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This French series is now (Spring 2023) being shown on the UK's Talking Pictures channel (so, older films, and TV series from yesteryear, plus some short public information films from the 50s and 60s).
This is a different Maigret, physically imposing (so agrees with the books) but with minimal use of his team, which is strange to UK viewers.
Here we've seen the excellent Rupert Davies as Maigret (60s B&W, on a low budget, some shaky scenery!) and the Gambon version, done about the same time as this French one, though Gambon stopped after 12 episodes in the early 90s. Also we had the later Rowan Atkinson shows, a bigger budget, a good attempt but hampered because RA just wasn't Maigret.
This French interpretation is massively atmospheric, (very French cinema!), all very moody and thoughtful, with Maigret pretty much saying as little as possible. Some viewers think it's great, true to the books, but that is WRONG!! I've read many of the books, I don't recall any that didn't have Lucas, his trusty right-hand man, playing a big part in the investigation. And in these, Lucas hardly ever appears, though they mention "his office".
In this episode, set in Flanders, none of his team appear, not even a phone call to Paris for some background info. Very odd. The story itself was pretty close to the same plot done by Rupert Davies, but that old one told it in an hour, this one with more pauses, and some padding, went for almost 2 hours!
The cast was pretty good, the lead female looked incredibly like Nicole Kidman, which was quite distracting (extremely attractive!) and Maigret even paid her a compliment, though he wondered why she hadn't a partner at 30?
Oh, and this plotline, though broadly similar to the UK one 30 years earlier, rather missed out on implying the mental agony being suffered by the 'apprentice' nun, who'd known how the murder occurred when on a home visit.
But for a French film, the subtitles are good, and I daresay we'll see some more episodes.
This is a different Maigret, physically imposing (so agrees with the books) but with minimal use of his team, which is strange to UK viewers.
Here we've seen the excellent Rupert Davies as Maigret (60s B&W, on a low budget, some shaky scenery!) and the Gambon version, done about the same time as this French one, though Gambon stopped after 12 episodes in the early 90s. Also we had the later Rowan Atkinson shows, a bigger budget, a good attempt but hampered because RA just wasn't Maigret.
This French interpretation is massively atmospheric, (very French cinema!), all very moody and thoughtful, with Maigret pretty much saying as little as possible. Some viewers think it's great, true to the books, but that is WRONG!! I've read many of the books, I don't recall any that didn't have Lucas, his trusty right-hand man, playing a big part in the investigation. And in these, Lucas hardly ever appears, though they mention "his office".
In this episode, set in Flanders, none of his team appear, not even a phone call to Paris for some background info. Very odd. The story itself was pretty close to the same plot done by Rupert Davies, but that old one told it in an hour, this one with more pauses, and some padding, went for almost 2 hours!
The cast was pretty good, the lead female looked incredibly like Nicole Kidman, which was quite distracting (extremely attractive!) and Maigret even paid her a compliment, though he wondered why she hadn't a partner at 30?
Oh, and this plotline, though broadly similar to the UK one 30 years earlier, rather missed out on implying the mental agony being suffered by the 'apprentice' nun, who'd known how the murder occurred when on a home visit.
But for a French film, the subtitles are good, and I daresay we'll see some more episodes.
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- Tony-Holmes
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