Directed by:
Bruno DumontScreenplay:
Bruno DumontCinematography:
Guillaume DeffontainesCast:
Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost, Philippe Jore, Philippe Peuvion, Lisa Hartmann, Julien Bodard, Corentin Carpentier, Pascal Fresch, Jason Cirot (more)Episodes(4)
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L'Bête humaine (E01)
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Au coeur du mal (E02)
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Le Diable en perchonne (E03)
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Allah Akbar ! (E04)
Plots(1)
The first day of the summer holidays in the French countryside is nothing unusual for little Quinquin. He hangs around with his friends and annoys passers-by letting off firecrackers. All of a sudden, however, a police helicopter appears and disturbs this summer tedium. A dead cow has been found in an abandoned military bunker with a hacked-up local resident hidden inside its body. The two investigating detectives, each one eccentric in his own way, delve into the case as the number of suspects and other victims steadily grows. This television miniseries – which playfully subverts the conventions of the detective genre – marks Dumont's first foray into comedy. Visually and thematically refined, the work resembles little of what we are used to seeing on television. Above all, it betrays great authenticity and underhand humor as it looks at the disturbing nature of evil and its influence on rural life. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
(more)Reviews (2)
True Detective from the sheltered workshop. Mesmerizing, as they say on sunny days when you can see the cliffs of England (and it's not raining). I rank the funeral mass among the funniest and best-constructed scenes I have ever seen in a film.
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I had great fun from time to time rather than having a lot of fun all the time. In fact, the question is to what extant is this very specific (un) balance "so-called a detective story/so-called children's holiday adventure/so-called absurd take-seriously-comedy" suitable for this. Although many "funny" scenes are nice and are not highlighted can rightly aim for a cult status (yes, for example, the scene in the church at the end of the first episode), but apart from that, Dumont interprets in an absolutely new way the saying "repeated joke is not a joke". After all, in some cases, watching a lame running gag and episodes full of fillers all the time is like a torture sometimes. And the footage... Why isn't it just a feature-film with a typical footage? Shortening the movie would only be beneficial. That is for sure.
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