Maigret and the Dead Lover (FFFUK)

<div><b>Screening as part of the&nbsp;</b><font color="#0000ee"><b><u><a href="https://www.filmhouse.org.uk/french-film-festival-uk">French Film Festival UK 2026</a></u></b></font><b>.</b></div><div><br></div><div>Writer/director Pascal Bonitzer brings his unique perspective and panache to Simenon’s cherished Parisian detective – a French counterpart to Agatha Christie’s Poirot – as he attempts to solve the murder of a diplomat with a long-held secret.</div><div><br></div><div>Inspector Maigret (four-time César nominee Denis Podalydès) is urgently summoned to the Quai d’Orsay: a former ambassador has been found shot dead by his long-serving housekeeper (Anne Alvaro, <i>The Taste of Others</i>). But rather than contact the police, she has followed diplomatic protocols by first informing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Forewarned that he will find a series of salacious letters – and cautioned to be discreet – Maigret heads to the victim’s opulent apartment. He finds no forensic evidence at the crime scene, but certainly, the letters prove startling – secret, decades-spanning correspondence between the ambassador and the Princess of Vuynes, whose own husband, by strange coincidence, has also just died...</div><div><br></div><div><div><i>"Bonitzer presents a masterful contemporary update of one of the great sleuths while capturing the character’s essence"</i> - New York Lincoln Centre</div></div>MysteryPT1H20M15FRfr
Denis Podalydès
Anne Alvaro
Manuel Guillot
Irène Jacob
Pascal Bonitzer
Saïd Ben Saïd
Maigret and the Dead Lover (FFFUK)"Maigret and the Dead Lover (FFFUK)"

Showtimes

November 21, 4:00 pm

Filmhouse