Film202680 min

Maigret and the Dead Lover

Name: Maigret and the Dead Lover
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Crime
Released: 2026
Duration: 80 min
Cast: Denis Podalydès, Olivier Rabourdin, Micha Lescot, Laurent Poitrenaux, Irène Jacob

Taste attributes: mysterydramacrimeslowfresh & originalunsavouryheavyrealisticintricateenclosedcomplex relationshipfighting evilsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeA heavy, smart crime drama: original and intimate. Best if you like depth over escapism.

Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: very heavy · Realism: balanced · Story: very intricate · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

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Intricacy: Smart / intricate, just how this profile likes it
Pace: Slow, just how this profile likes it
Wholesomeness: Unsavoury, just how this profile likes it

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Emotional punch: Balanced emotional punch, where this profile leans emotive / stirring

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Synopsis

Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning, she discovered the bullet-riddled body of Mr. Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador whom she had served as a housekeeper for 46 years. While searching the victim's apartment, Maigret and Janvier uncover hundreds of letters. The diplomat had maintained a fifty-year-long love correspondence with a certain Princess of Vuynes, whose husband - by a strange coincidence - had died just a few days earlier. As he confronts the various members of the two families and the suspicious silence of Mademoiselle Larrieu, Maigret finds himself faced with surprise after surprise, watching his certainties crumble - until the solution to the mystery finally hits him in the face at the very last moment...

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