Maldoror
Short description
Set in Belgium in 1995, this crime thriller follows Paul Chartier, a young and impulsive police recruit. After two girls vanish, Chartier is assigned to Maldoror, a secret unit tasked with monitoring a dangerous sex offender. When the official operation fails to produce results, Chartier becomes frustrated with the limitations of the legal system. He decides to ignore his superiors and begins a solitary, obsessive hunt to find the perpetrators.
Directed by Fabrice Du Welz, the film is the seventh project in his career, following Inexorable. The screenplay was written by Du Welz and Domenico La Porta. The movie stars Anthony Bajon as Paul Chartier, with a supporting cast that includes Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi López, Laurent Lucas, and David Murgia. A total of 33 actors are credited in the production.
Maldoror is a co-production between Belgium and France, involving companies such as Frakas Productions and France 2 Cinéma. The film has received a generally positive response from viewers, maintaining a 6.6 rating on IMDb based on 1,900 votes and a 6.4 rating on TMDB from 113 votes.
What's left behind the scenes
- A loose adaptation of the story of Marc Dutroux, a criminal who operated in Belgium in the 1990s. Dutroux kidnapped, raped, and murdered several girls. Rivalry between law enforcement agencies and other factors led to a negligent investigation, a lenient sentence for the criminal, and, in turn, a large-scale protest that led to the reform of the entire law enforcement system.
- The film's title is taken from "The Songs of Maldoror," a prose poem written in the second half of the 19th century by the French poet Lautréamont, although the film's action takes place in modern times. According to the film's director and screenwriter, Fabrice Du Welz, both the poem and the film explore the nature and spread of evil.
- Director and screenwriter Fabrice Du Welz was 20 years old when the Dutroux case became widely known. He always wanted to make a film about Dutroux, but he couldn't figure out how to approach it. The solution came only when he watched Quentin Tarantino's drama "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" (2019) and saw how Tarantino depicts the murder of Sharon Tate (1943-1969). Du Welz decided to make a film where reality borders on fiction, but where justice and fairness still exist as they should be (in contrast to the mockery of justice and fairness that exists in modern society).
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