This is basically the French version of a lifetime made for TV movie, about a Robert Durst style case. It is however not anywhere close to the caliber of 'All Good Things,' since the main character in this film is the mother, not the actual murder victim or the alleged killer. And the film doesn't attempt to present a theory of how the murder happened, it just leaves it in the dark, exchanges it for pathetic scenes of Catherine Denevue with aging makeup, hobbling around a barren apartment talking about the loss of her daughter.
I was unaware of this when I began watching the film, and found the events incomprehensible. The motives of the characters, be they the mother, daughter, or their attorney seemed quite murky to me. My initial reaction was to like Maurice, and become confused when his behavior started to change. The character on screen was poorly written and acted. We are apparently supposed to believe that everything Maurice did was a criminal, sociopathic act, including his desire to move up in the world and all of his professional decisions.
Was Renée Le Roux actually good or bad at running the casino? The film gives us no clues whatsoever but insists that she is either way the real victim/martyr in this story. She denies her daughter an inheritance, and their relationship ends badly. I didn't really sympathize with her at all, she was a controlling parent, trying to run her adult daughter's life, but now we are supposed to view that as perfectly o.k. given the tepid courtroom soap opera that this story ends in.
I was unaware of this when I began watching the film, and found the events incomprehensible. The motives of the characters, be they the mother, daughter, or their attorney seemed quite murky to me. My initial reaction was to like Maurice, and become confused when his behavior started to change. The character on screen was poorly written and acted. We are apparently supposed to believe that everything Maurice did was a criminal, sociopathic act, including his desire to move up in the world and all of his professional decisions.
Was Renée Le Roux actually good or bad at running the casino? The film gives us no clues whatsoever but insists that she is either way the real victim/martyr in this story. She denies her daughter an inheritance, and their relationship ends badly. I didn't really sympathize with her at all, she was a controlling parent, trying to run her adult daughter's life, but now we are supposed to view that as perfectly o.k. given the tepid courtroom soap opera that this story ends in.