Murder, suicide, accidental death, multiple cases of blackmail and bribery, terminal disease; it all kicks off in French thriller 'A Deadly Union' after the Cote d'Azur wedding that its title aludes to. Unfortunately, it's fundamentally quite silly, a contemporary version of Agatha Christie where everyone has motive and no-one can be trusted to be telling the truth. Lannick Gautry plays the lead detective, as he did in the recent 'Killer by the Lake'; in both I found him an underwhleming protagonist. At least in that series the underlying plot had less of the feel of bad soap opera.
Review of Crimson Wedding
