Maigret and the Dead Lover

Inspector Maigret is urgently summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after retired ambassador Berthier-Lagès is found by his longtime housekeeper with a fatal gunshot wound. Searching the victim’s opulent apartment for clues, Maigret discovers a series of startling letters revealing a decades-long correspondence between the ambassador and the Princess of Vuynes, whose husband has also just died. As Maigret delves deeper into the intertwined lives of the two families, he begins to uncover long-buried secrets that someone is desperate to keep hidden.

Adapted from Georges Simenon’s celebrated 1960 novel Maigret in Society, MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER marks acclaimed writer-director Pascal Bonitzer’s contemporary take on one of France’s most iconic literary detectives. Set in the early 2000s and starring four-time César nominee Denis Podalydès in the lead role, the film brings Simenon’s famously methodical investigator into a modern Parisian setting, resulting in a “truly beautiful” work that is as “improbable as it is singularly captivating” (Benzine).