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French True Crime Breaks Barriers at Home and Abroad
French true crime series blur borders between doc and fiction.
Bringing together a pair of filmmakers with respective backgrounds in narrative features and investigative reporting, the four-part inquiry into a maddening 1970s cold case mixes archival accounts with textured recreations, making for a project that defies easy categorization. Produced by Imagissime boss Elodie Polo Ackermann – the creative exec behind Netflix breakout “Who Killed Little Gregory?” – the Series Mania selected miniseries accented a spellbinding storytelling as it followed a Parisian psychiatrist obsessed with closing the book on a string of sexual assaults and homicides left unresolved for more than four decades. Of late, the godfather’s been working on scripted, showrunning limited series like the HBO original “Laetitia” and critically acclaimed “Sambre: Anatomy of a Crime.” Whether retracing a 2011 murder case or more than three decades of sexual assaults, both used true crime as a frame for wider sociological concerns.
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