How Depardieu and "Maigret" are one at Leconte

• In "Maigret", the famous superintendent investigates the death of a young girl who was brutally stabbed.

• Gérard Depardieu brings a unique density and emotion to the character created by Georges Simenon.

• Patrice Leconte, who returns to directing after years of absence, is also the hero of a comic strip which comes out at the same time as "Maigret".

The commissioner is back.

by Patrice Leconte brings back the famous policeman to the raincoat and hat (but deprived of a pipe for health reasons) created by Georges Simenon.

He investigates the death of a brutally murdered young girl that echoes with his past.

And it is upsetting.

“Emotion is what interested me, confides Patrice Leconte to

.

It's a kind of portrait of Depardieu.

No one else could have embodied it.

The actor, more imposing than ever, reveals the flaws of a tired character who lets himself be touched by a brutal affair to the point of losing his appetite.

Forget Gérard, see Depardieu

“Maigret is emblematic in our culture, a bit like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot.

It is also part of our French landscape because it is rooted in reality and has a taste for the human,” insists Patrice Leconte.

He took great liberty with

, which he adapted by emphasizing the painful past of the commissioner.

“Depardieu hovered above us, although Jérôme Tonnerre and I did not, at first sight, adapt the book expressly for him, remembers the director.

He showed availability and impeccable professionalism.

He became Maigret.

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The most surprising thing is that the spectator ends up forgetting Gérard while being fully aware that he is watching Depardieu.

“I think this paradox is a strength for my film.

What he brings to her is dazzling,” insists Patrice Leconte.

When a protagonist says to Maigret "When you lose a child, you lose everything, there's nothing left, only the night" and the commissioner replies "I know, Monsieur Caplan, I know" with a lost gaze, we suffer with him.

And we understand that he provides paternal and unambiguous help to a young girl in distress played by Jade Labeste.

"This investigation will finally give him a taste for life," says the filmmaker.

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Patrice Leconte has doubly succeeded in his return after years of absence.

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.

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