One of two movie-length episodes in the 2017 second season of the Rowan Atkinson-helmed adaptations of Georges Simenon's Maigret stories, this one, based on 'Maigret And The Strangled Stripper', is another rivetting crime melodrama set in a terrifically realised gritty 1950s Paris full of morphine-addled prostitutes, rent boys, showgirls and grubby bohemes, and I think it again terrifically captures the feel of Simenon's spare writing and I think Rowan Atkinson is Maigret leapt-to-life from Simenon's pages.
★★★★☆
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