Jean Gabin has never looked so good.
And also sharp.
It almost seems like the film has just been released on the big screen.
In
Maigret tends a trap
, a classic Simenon released in 1958, adapted for the cinema by Jean Delannoy, Lino Ventura, Annie Girardot, Jean Desailly and the incomparable Gabin are in their business.
It must be said that Michel Audiard is also in the maneuver on the dialogues.
With this prestige edition, restored 4K, and set in a "digibook" box, the film regains its former glory.
Suddenly, the old-fashioned cop, pipe in mouth, all in deduction and apparent calm, sparks again.
Simenon's Paris shines brightly.
The other two adaptations,
Maigret and the Saint-Fiacre affair
(still directed by Delannoy, in 1959), as well as
Maigret sees rouge
(signed Gilles Grangier, in 1963) also benefited from these attentions.
Cinematic resurrection
Aude and Thierry Blondeau, and their company Coin de Mire, are behind this beautiful story of cinematographic resurrection.
"I admit that I have
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