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‘Case 137’ Review: Dominik Moll’s Riveting Police Procedural Places Good Cop and Bad Cop on Opposite Sides
Lea Drucker is superb as a dogged inspector investigating an egregious case of riot police misconduct in Dominik Molls's starkly effective 'Case 137.'
If Stéphanie tends toward sympathy with her accused colleagues as she investigates them, her next assignment tests that impulse, as distraught mother and nursing auxiliary Joëlle (Sandra Colombo) claims her 20-year-old son Guillaume was shot in the head, wholly unprovoked, by unidentified BRI officers on a day trip to Paris, leaving him with life-changing injuries. Humor and texture come via glimpses of her home life as a single mother, with Machado Graner (brother of “Anatomy of a Fall” breakout Milo) excellent as the testy, vulnerable Victor, an early adolescent just beginning to see his parents and their profession through more jaded eyes. An adorable stray kitten introduces an unexpected note of cuteness, leading Stéphanie into the joys of online cat videos, though her father cautions against such distractions in life: “When everyone’s brainwashed and democracy’s dead, you’ll regret watching so many kitties.” Intelligent, drily seething and duly enraging in turn, “Case 137” keeps its mind strictly on the job.
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