Maigret and the Dead Lover (CTC)

Directly following the break-out critical and box office success of 2025’s The Stolen Painting, acclaimed writer/director Pascal Bonitzer brings his unique perspective and directorial panache to Georges Simenon’s beloved Parisian detective Inspector Maigret – a French counterpart to Agatha Christie’s Poirot - as he attempts to solve the murder of a former diplomat with a long-held secret.

Commissioner Maigret is urgently called to the Quai d'Orsay (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) after the murder of Monsieur Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador. He quickly discovers that Berthier-Lagès had been carrying on a fifty-year-long love correspondence with Princess de Vuynes, whose husband, in a curious twist of fate, has just died. As Maigret faces the members of both families and the suspicious silence of the diplomat's maid, he goes from one revelation to another....

Cast: Denis Podalydès, Anne Alvaro, Manuel Guillot, Irène Jacob, Micha Lescot, Dominique Reymond, Arcady Radeff, Laurent Poitreneaux, Olivier Rabourdin

Director: Pascal Bonitzer

★★★★ "Surprising and seductive. A delightful adaptation, particularly well done." TÉLÉRAMA

★★★★ "A pure cinematic delight" LA TRIBUTE DIMANCHE

★★★★ "Delightful. A perfectly oiled machine" LES FICHES DU CINÉMA

★★★★ "Podalydès brings his imagination, his mischief, and a discreet touch of irony and self-mockery to Maigret" FRANCEINFO CULTURE