DRAMA.
My neighbor the killer
“The Dreamed Life of Others”, at 9:10 p.m., on France 2.
One eye in the rearview mirror to which a yellow plastic flip-flop is attached, a man revs the engine of his car on a mountain road.
He stops next to a police checkpoint set up in front of a plush chalet.
He says he knows the owners of the house.
In front of the cameras, he boasts: according to him, the real estate developer, who disappeared, was involved in “not very clear” matters.
“Or it was someone who went in there and caused the carnage,” he predicts to journalists.
The fiction is freely inspired by the Flactif affair, a quintuple assassination which hit the headlines in 2003, when a developer, his wife and their three children aged 7 to 10 were killed by a tenant, in Grand-Bornand ( Haute-Savoie).
The edifying TV film dismantles the workings of the tragedy and denounces the jealousy that pushed a couple to murder.
This contemporary adaptation highlights the role of social networks, a distorting mirror which tends to make people believe that the grass is greener on the other side.
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