Maldoror (2024)
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Duration: 155 minuten
Country:
Belgium
Directed by: Fabrice du Welz
Stars: Anthony Bajon, Béatrice Dalle and Sergi López
IMDb score:
6,6 (1.903)
Releasedate: 28 August 2024
Maldoror plot
The impulsive Paul Chartier is a new recruit to the police force. He is assigned the case of a dangerous and notorious criminal who may or may not be responsible for the disappearance of two girls. When the police fail in their plans, Paul develops an obsession with the case. He goes after the perpetrators alone.
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mrklm
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- 11629 messages
- 10041 votes
Directed by: Fabrice du Welz
Novice gendarme Paul Chartier [Anthony Bajon] has an eye for detail and a well-trained memory. As a result, he is the first to realize (despite the poor communication between various Belgian police departments) that the recently released Marcel Dedieu [Sergi López] is involved in human trafficking and probably has two girls in his basement who have been missing for months. For bureaucratic reasons, no prosecution takes place. Paul's obsession with the case places him at odds with colleagues and managers and naturally also has a major impact on his marriage to Jeanne [Alba Gaïa Bellugi]. Well-directed film adaptation of a fascinating crime story (loosely based on true events) is ruined by a coming and going of characters and an abundance of isolated incidents whose purpose is hardly clear. Paul is also an unsympathetic person and the ending is questionable to say the least. Stylishly filmed, but messily structured and very unbalanced.
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hvdriel
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- 397 messages
- 357 votes
The director has a message about the clumsy police force in Belgium, and he hammers that message home through the story in which the officers operate in a more foolish manner than they should, and through repeated comments from the 'ordinary' Belgian who shakes his/her head ashamed of his/her country, while I sat through the film shaking my head.
Loosely based on the gruesome Dutroux event, the film just doesn't know what it wants: unevenly distributed in time, one event unexpectedly rolls over the other, characters appear here and there who sometimes seem to return, I saw traces of an American police officer, and the appearance of an anti-hero that aroused pity.
I would say that there was a lack of a firm hand to keep things on track.
A euphemism for: a mess.
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Knisper
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- 13042 messages
- 1280 votes
This film is quite an experience. Clearly different from the films of Du Welz that I have seen so far. The strongest part of the film is in the sketching of the image and atmosphere of Charleroi in the 90s. A lot of attention is also paid to landscape photography-like shots of strangely running electricity cables, pipes that run close to houses etc. That bleakness is Du Welz's own and with that this film is also very personal in a way.
What the film lacks a bit is a well-functioning tension arc. Perhaps in such a film you are limited to how the situation actually occurred (even with the fictional elements). What is also striking is that the more absurdist non-linear side of Du Welz is absent in this film, which means that the emphasis is more on the story than on the atmosphere. That suits my taste less, but as a director you can't just keep making the same film.
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