A REAL JOB Trailer (2024) Louise Bourgoin

A REAL JOB Trailer (2024) Louise Bourgoin

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Synopsis
Benjamin is a PhD student without scholarship support. Under the pressure of his parents, and in need of money, he becomes a substitute teacher in a middle school.
Without training nor experience, and facing a declining public educational system, he discovers how tough this job can be.
Hopefully, his supportive and committed colleagues will lead him to take a fresh look at the profession.
Directed by
Thomas Lilti (Hippocrates, The Country Doctor, The Freshmen)

Cast
Vincent Lacoste, François Cluzet, Adele Exarchopoulos, Louise Bourgoin

Reactions
Through very endearing characters, Thomas Lilti delivers a magnificent tribute to the profession of middle school teacher and a very beautiful film, very lively, funny, and full of humanity. – Le Parisien
The film is marked by the blend of humor and tenderness that make Thomas Lilti’s work charming. – 20 Minutes By Caroline Vié
Elliptical, political, and moving. Teachers have never been filmed like this before. – CinemaTeaser By Renan Cros
Avoiding all binary oppositions, “A Real Job” once again benefits from Thomas Lilti’s talent for nuance. His depiction of the national education system is not without hope, but it adapts its direction to a system on the verge of collapse, and to a social commitment of teachers far too taken for granted. An essential film. – Ecran Large By Antoine Desrues
A gallery of touching and often funny portraits. – Elle By Anna Nobili
By capturing the small moments of daily life, the incongruities of the system but also the major challenges of this place of learning, Thomas Lilti succeeds in a clever blend of humor and gravity, with a dream cast, in giving a fair portrayal of this “real job”, often scorned or portrayed in a caricatured manner in cinema. – Franceinfo Culture By Laurence Houot
L’Humanité By Sophie Joubert A film that feels good.
The director has the knack for capturing the whirlwind of a school year, from the September start to the summer holidays. A beautiful film. – Le Point By Jean-Luc Wachthausen
Festivals and Awards
BJIFF – China, 2024
Vienna Francophone Film Festival Austria, 2024
Rendez-Vous With French Cinema à New York, United States, 2024 – Official selection
Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden, 2024
Hong Kong French Film Festival, 2023
San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2023, Official Competition
A Real Job

Theatrical release poster
French Un métier sérieux
Directed by Thomas Lilti
Screenplay by Thomas Lilti
Produced by
Agnès Vallée
Emmanuel Barraux
Starring
Vincent Lacoste
François Cluzet
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Louise Bourgoin
William Lebghil
Lucie Zhang
Bouli Lanners
Cinematography Antoine Héberlé
Edited by
Gwen Mallauran
Matthieu Ruyssen
Music by Jonathan Morali
Production
companies
31 Juin Films
Les Films du Parc
France 2 Cinéma
Le Pacte
Les Films de Benjamin
Distributed by Le Pacte
Release date
13 September 2023
Country France
Language French
Box office $3.5 million[1]
A Real Job (French: Un métier sérieux) is a 2023 French comedy-drama film written and directed by Thomas Lilti which stars Vincent Lacoste along with François Cluzet, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Louise Bourgoin, William Lebghil, Lucie Zhang, and Bouli Lanners.

Plot
The plot follows the life of Benjamin, a young PhD student doing a substitution as a maths teacher in a suburban French school, coming across a group of fellow teachers that include Pierre, Meriem, Sandrine, and Fouad.[2]

Cast
Vincent Lacoste as Benjamin[3]
François Cluzet as Pierre[3]
Adèle Exarchopoulos as Meriem[3]
Louise Bourgoin as Sandrine[3]
William Lebghil as Fouad[3]
Lucie Zhang as Sophie[3]
Bouli Lanners as le père de Benjamin[4] ('Benjamin's father')
Léo Chalié as Alix[3]
Théo Navarro-Mussy as Sofiane[3]
Mustapha Abourachid [fr]
Production
The film was produced by 31 Juin Films and Les Films du Parc alongside France 2 Cinéma, Le Pacte and Les Films de Benjamin.[2]

Release
Distributed by Le Pacte, the film was released theatrically in France on 13 September 2023. It also made it to the official selection lineup of the 71st San Sebastián International Film Festival, in a special screening, out of competition, slot.[5]

Reception
A Real Job received an average rating of 3.5 out of 5 stars on the French website AlloCiné, based on 35 reviews.[6]

Frédéric Strauss of Télérama wrote that the film "builds a fictional mosaic that has a lot to say, seriously and also amusingly, about the life of teachers".[7]

Fabien Lemercier of Cineuropa deemed A Real Job to be "a funny, instructive and moving ensemble film about school teachers".[2]

References
"A Real Job (2023)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
Lemercier, Fabien (12 September 2023). "Critique : Un métier sérieux". Cineuropa.
Boutillier, Solène (12 September 2023). "Un métier sérieux : après Hippocrate et Première année, Thomas Lilti réunit tous ses acteurs fétiches dans son nouveau film". Allocine.
"Un métier sérieux" (PDF). Le Pacte. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
Szalai, Georg (25 August 2023). "San Sebastian Fest Adds Six Films to Competition, Including 'Fingernails' With Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed". The Hollywood Reporter.
"Critiques Presse pour le film Un métier sérieux". AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
""Un métier sérieux" : Thomas Lilti doit-il revoir sa copie ?". Telérama. 12 September 2023.
External links
A Real Job at IMDb
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The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec

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Directed by Luc Besson
Screenplay by Luc Besson
Based on "Adèle and the Beast" and "Mummies on Parade"
by Jacques Tardi[2][3]
Produced by Virginie Besson-Silla
Starring
Louise Bourgoin
Mathieu Amalric
Philippe Nahon
Gilles Lellouche
Jean-Paul Rouve
Narrated by Bernard Lanneau
Cinematography Thierry Arbogast
Edited by Julien Rey[1]
Music by Éric Serra
Production
company
EuropaCorp
Distributed by EuropaCorp[4]
Release dates
9 April 2010 (Brussels)
14 April 2010
Running time 107 minutes[5]
Country France[1]
Language French
Budget $27-30 million [6][7]
Box office $34.1 million[8]
The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (French: Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec), released as Adèle: Rise of the Mummy in Malaysia and Singapore,[9] is a 2010 French fantasy adventure feature film written and directed by Luc Besson. It is loosely based on the comic book series The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec by Jacques Tardi and, as in the comic, follows the eponymous writer and a number of recurring side characters in a succession of far-fetched incidents in 1910s Paris and beyond, in this episode revolving around parapsychology and ultra-advanced Ancient Egyptian technology, which both pastiche and subvert adventure and speculative fiction of the period. The primarily live-action film, shot in Super 35, incorporates much use of computer animation to portray its fanciful elements and contemporary action film special and visual effects within the form of the older-style adventure films they have largely superseded.

Plot
In Paris, c. 1912 Professor Espérandieu is experimenting with telepathic techniques, and he unintentionally hatches a 135 million year-old pterosaur egg within the National Museum of Natural History. This results in the death of a former prefect (scandalously sharing a taxicab with a Moulin Rouge showgirl) which, though witnessed only by the then-drunk passerby Ferdinand Choupard who is detained by the police, sparks an epidemic of claimed sightings of the creature. The President of France orders the case be considered of utmost urgency by the National Police, only for it to be handed down to the highly decorated but bumbling Inspector Albert Caponi.

Adèle Blanc-Sec, a journalist and travel writer of some fame, finds herself involved after returning from Egypt, where she was searching for Ramesses II's mummified doctor/physician Patmosis. She wants to revive the mummy with the help of Espérandieu so the doctor can save her sister Agathe, who is comatose following an unfortunate tennis incident involving a hatpin. After a brief struggle with her nemesis, the mysterious Professor Dieuleveult, she retrieves the mummy and returns home. Her mission is complicated further by Espérandieu being on death row, having been blamed for the pterosaurs attacks, in lieu of Inspector Caponi and celebrity big game hunter Justin de Saint-Hubert having any success in taking down the beast itself. Andrej Zborowski, a researcher at the Jardin des Plantes who is enamored with Adèle, is able to lure the pterosaur into hiding. Adèle, riding the pterosaur, rescues Espérandieu moments before his execution.

Saint-Hubert fatally shoots the pterosaur along with Espérandieu, but not before Espérandieu is able to revive the mummy. The mummy reveals itself to be the Pharaoh's physicist ("I'm a nuclear physicist. I deal in figures, signs and equations.") and is unable to help her sister medically. Instead he accompanies Adèle to the Louvre, where they revive the rest of the Pharaoh's mummified court on display there, including the Pharaoh himself. The Pharaoh's doctor uses their advanced medical techniques to revive Agathe. The Pharaoh then decides he wants to see Paris, so the entire court wanders out into the night, scaring the ever-hapless Choupard yet again.

Adèle decides she needs a vacation to relax. As she boards the ship, the name RMS Titanic is revealed. Dieuleveult is then shown, sarcastically wishing her a "good journey".

In a mid-credits scene, Ménard pursues Saint-Hubert with a rifle, still outraged that Saint-Hubert shot the pterosaur. Ménard is arrested by Caponi as two gorillas stare menacingly at Saint-Hubert.

Cast

Louise Bourgoin at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
Louise Bourgoin as Adèle Blanc-Sec
Mathieu Amalric as Dieuleveult
Philippe Nahon as Professor Ménard
Gilles Lellouche as Inspector Albert Caponi
Jean-Paul Rouve as Justin de Saint-Hubert
Jacky Nercessian as Professor Marie-Joseph Espérandieu
Nicolas Giraud as Andrej Zborowski
Frédérique Bel as The Bourgeois
Laure de Clermont as Agathe Blanc-Sec
Swann Arlaud as The Elysée Crier
Youssef Hadji as Aziz
Production
The film incorporates characters and events from several of the albums, in particular the first, "Adèle and the Beast", first published in 1976, and the fourth, 1978's "Mummies on Parade,"[2] within an overall plot of Besson's construction and takes place primarily in Paris, c. 1912.[3]

Reception
On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a score of 85% based on reviews from 26 critics, with an average rating of 6.1/10. The site's critics consensus reads, "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec is an old-school adventure yarn with a distaff European - and generally rather delightful - spin."[10]

Variety magazine called the film a "polished comicbook adaptation" and praised the performance of Louise Bourgoin's as the titular heroine. The reviewer complains that Besson's work is uneven, and the reviewer suggests that Besson would benefit from fresh collaborative voices, and a scissors for the overlong third act.[11]

Angie Errigo of Empire magazine gave the film 4 stars, proclaiming that "Besson is back".[12] Matthew Turner of ViewLondon gave the film 5 stars, writing: "impressively directed and beautifully designed, this is a highly entertaining and frequently funny action-adventure romp with a witty script, great special effects and a terrific central performance from rising star Louise Bourgoin".[13]

Home media
Shout! Factory released a censored PG-rated version of the film in the United States on Blu-ray and DVD in August 2013. The original unedited version was released on Blu-ray in October 2013.[14]

See also
April and the Extraordinary World, a 2015 animated film, also based on the visual style of Tardi
List of films based on French-language comics
References
"The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec". uniFrance. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
Thomas, G.W. "Adèle Blanc-Sec (1976–1998) by Jacques Tardi". The Ghostbreakers. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
"The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec" (PDF) (Press release). EuropaCorp. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
"Official trailer" (in French). EuropaCorp. 2010. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
"Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec — The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. 2 March 2011. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
"Les Aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010) - JPBox-Office".
Mintzer, Jordan (18 April 2010). "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec". Variety.
"Les aventures extraordinaires d'Adèle Blanc-Sec (The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec) (2010)". Boxofficemojo.com. Retrieved 14 May 2014.
"Adèle: Rise of the Mummy". Yahoo! Malaysia Movies. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
"The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec". Rotten Tomatoes. Fandango Media. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
Mintzer, Jordan (18 April 2010). "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec". Variety.
Errigo, Angie (17 March 2011). "Adèle Blanc-Sec". Empire.
"Adèle Blanc-Sec". ViewLondon. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
"Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec coming to Blu-ray". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 5 October 2013. Retrieved 2 October 2013.
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While largely unknown to American audiences, model-turned-actress Louise Bourgoin is an up and comer in France and it feels like she could be on the verge of a breakthrough, or at least proving she is much more than a pretty face. Known for starring in Luc Besson’s adventure film “The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec,” “The Girl From Monaco,” out-of-competition 2010 Cannes entry “Black Heaven,” and a recent appearance in William Monahan’s Tribeca entry “Mojave,” Bourgoin has been making strides towards a respectable career (she started out as a TV presenter), but a starring vehicle at Cannes, might just be her tipping point. The feature-length directorial debut of Laurent Lariviere (who’s made several shorts before this), “I Am A Soldier” stars a stripped down Bourgoin in a crime drama about an unemployed woman who tries to make good for herself in and around the world of dog trafficking. Here’s the official synopsis:

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Sandrine, 30 years old, is forced to return home in Roubaix to live with her mother. She is unemployed and accepts to work with her uncle in a kennel, which turns out to be a hub for dog trafficking from Eastern Europe. She rapidly acquires authority and respect in this world dominated by men, and earns the money that could provide her with her freedom. But sometimes, even good soldiers stop taking orders.

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“I wanted to talk about the sense of shame and failure that drives someone to return to the family fold after trying, unsuccessfully, to build a better future for themselves elsewhere,” the director said in a statement. “In the film, far from being the anticipated refuge, the family paradoxically becomes the setting for a confrontation and a loss.”

Co-starring Jean-Hugues Anglade, Anne Benoît, and Laurent Capelluto, “I Am A Soldier” screens in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes. Watch the first two clips from the film below.

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Around about this time last year in the Un Certain Regard sidebar of Cannes we were discovering eventual winner Kornél Mundruczó‘s "White God" which features incarcerated, maltreated dogs taking revenge on their human captors. So a little deja vu was inevitable when at a key moment in Laurent Larivière‘s debut feature "I Am A Soldier" a character gets mauled to unconsciousness by a riled-up German Shepherd escaped from its joyless cage. But while canine captivity is definitely a part of Larivière’s debut film, his focus is resolutely on the human characters, the sordid decisions they make in order to keep their heads above water in a drowning economy, and the relationships that crumble and coalesce in that crucible. It is narrow in scope, solid in execution but a little too familiar and too unfocused to take to heart.

It does however boast a strong, un-self-pitying performance from model/TV-presenter-turned-actress Louise Bourgoin (from Luc Besson‘s "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adele Blanc-Sec") who convincingly acts the part of the ordinary young woman who finds herself at the thin end of poverty’s wedge, even if her luminous good looks and inescapably superior bone structure do make the relentless unglamor of her situation a tiny bit hard to swallow at times. She plays Sandrine, who at the film’s beginning is checking through the snag list in the dingy apartment she cannot afford to keep and arguing with the disinterested realtor about the return of her deposit. With nowhere to go but back to her mother’s in her small hometown, but unable initially to admit to the failure of her move away, she faces further disappointments there. Her sister, Audrey has beaten her to the moving-home punch: she, her husband and child are all three living in Sandrine’s old room while her husband has a slow-acting nervous breakdown trying to build a family house on a small plot of land nearby, all by himself. In the midst of all this financial hardship, Sandrine’s mother (an excellent Anne Benoit, making much more of her role than is written) does her best to be supportive but is hardly capable of making ends meet for herself.

I Am A SoldierAs a result she relies somewhat on her brother Henri (veteran Jean-Hugues Anglade), who runs dog kennels and who agrees to take on Sandrine as an employee. At the kennels, Sandrine discovers not only that Henri is involved in very illegal dog smuggling operations, but that she herself has an odd aptitude for the unsentimental, unpleasant work. But the demi monde of the black market dog trade, which is the film’s best bid for originality, is not examined in as much depth as we might have hoped, with Larivière instead opting to tack on a rather unnecessary love subplot (between Sandrine and Henri’s vet associate), which does not just sell out some of the hard-nosed vibe of the story, it also distracts from the more interesting themes about family and the limits of one’s duty to one’s own kin. Because Henri, so generous and family-oriented toward his sister at home, turns out to be a right bastard, if his involvement in a revolting practice whereby puppies are bought by the kilo, or by the crate, off trucks idling beneath underpasses at night, had not already signalled that fact. And oddly enough, Larivière never really mines this territory for its obviously emotive potential: we hardly ever see the dogs, and get the impression he is as uninterested in them as living creatures as Sandrine is. It’s telling that her eventual rejection of Henri and this way of life comes not from dawning conscience but from a close call with the police.

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Cinematographer David Chizallet (who’s been all over this Cannes, also having shot "The Anarchists" and "Mustang") is on slightly uneven form here, often lapsing into blandness, but occasionally achieving a rather brilliant shot, such as the prowling car headlights circling restlessly like hungry animals while they await the arrival of a truck from Eastern Europe. And Larivière seems to have saved his most expressive directorial flourishes and shot design for a few impressive sequences, while being happy to see the rest of the film just get the job done. Early on a scene evoking Sandrine’s isolation by having her end up alone in frame as passersby, seemingly accidentally, all clear the area simultaneously, is a striking moment that set up an expectation of visual inventiveness that the rest of the film did not really fulfill.

I Am A SoldierBut the greatest issue with "I am a Soldier" (rather nonsensically named for a line in a great Johnny Hallyday version of "Quand Revient La Nuit" that plays unexpectedly at a key moment) is that this tale of hot dogs and cold hearts cannot settle on what it wants to be: social expose, domestic drama, love story or low-key thriller. And so it ends up floundering somewhere in the midlands between all these–a bit of a mongrel, but a merit-worthy bid for thespian credibility from its committed star at least. [B-]
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For a different, more pastoral, approach to elevated fan fic — this one conducted with the approval of the Dashiell Hammett Estate, rather than public domain — look to six-episode limited series Monsieur Spade, which will roll out on AMC, AMC+ and Acorn TV.

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The Bottom Line
Not the stuff dreams are made of, but Clive Owen shines.
Airdate: Sunday, January 14 (AMC, AMC+, Acorn TV)
Cast: Clive Owen, Cara Bossom, Denis Ménochet, Louise Bourgoin, Chiara Mastroianni, Stanley Weber, Matthew Beard, Jonathan Zaccaï, Rebecca Root
Creators: Scott Frank and Tom Fontana
Hailing from the powerhouse creative duo of Scott Frank (The Queen’s Gambit) and Tom Fontana (Oz) and boasting a likably droll central turn by Clive Owen, Monsieur Spade takes Hammett’s Sam Spade and drops him into a bucolic retirement in the South of France. There, rather than reconfiguring the protagonist for an ironic excursion to the dark side, Frank and Fontana explore what happens to an irritated and irritable character when, after finding peace, he’s plunged into the middle of escalating crime and unrest.

There’s a whole subgenre of stories focused on famous detectives gone to seed. Sherlock Holmes and obvious Sherlock Holmes proxies seem to be experiencing senility, drug addiction or general obsolescence with strange regularity. Of course, Sherlock Holmes is one of the more recognizable and clearly defined characters in all of storytelling, while Sam Spade was just featured in The Maltese Falcon and four additional Hammett short stories. He’s an indelible character, but it probably isn’t as clear to most modern audiences which traits are ineluctably Spade-ian and which can be most fruitfully upended.

This results in Monsieur Spade being a somewhat fuzzy thing. I was consistently intrigued by the series, especially for Owen’s interestingly prickly work and the beauty of the surroundings, but it isn’t always clear why Frank and Fontana were inspired to reconsider Sam Spade, and their approach isn’t always compelling.

The action begins in 1955 with Spade (Owen) transporting a young girl from Istanbul to the town of Bozouls. Teresa is the daughter of the late Brigid O’Shaughnessy and Philippe Saint Andre (Jonathan Zaccaï), a local miscreant who everybody agrees is ill-suited for fatherhood. But Sam Spade promised Brigid he would deliver the girl to her father, and Sam Spade keeps his promises.

Eight years later, Spade is still in Bozouls. He married a vineyard owner (Chiara Mastroianni’s Gabrielle), and when she died he inherited her estate and continues to live there, establishing a comfortable and low-key routine. He bickers agreeably with Patrice (Denis Ménochet), the local chief of police, flirts a little with Marguerite (Louise Bourgoin), a local club owner, and bickers more threateningly with Marguerite’s husband, Jean-Pierre (Stanley Weber).

Teresa (Cara Bossom), meanwhile, is living and studying at a nearby convent, where she has very little relationship with either Philippe or Spade. Everything gets upended when the convent is the site of a horrifying massacre, connected in part to Teresa and more directly to a mysterious Algerian boy. Like the title relic in The Maltese Falcon, the boy is wanted by an eclectic assortment of special interests, who each imagine he’s precious for different reasons.

Spade, as a character, isn’t an investigative savant in that Holmes manner. Spade’s sense of justice is competitive. He expects to be able to outthink everybody in the room, inciting petty and not-too-petty squabbles. Sometimes finding answers will require that he gets punched or somebody else gets shot. The Spade of Hammett’s book and John Huston’s perfect gem of a film is a sardonic chess player without emotional investment. But what happens to this alley cat when he becomes domesticated? What does it mean for Sam Spade to be in the middle of a case in which the MacGuffin, the stuff that dreams are made of, is a human and not an object?

It’s a provocative and interesting question, but one that won’t be deeply meaningful to viewers who don’t know any earlier incarnation of Spade. The decision to leap eight years forward early in the premiere lets the creators inject smaller mysteries relating to the events of the intervening time, but it erases most of the fish-out-of-water evolution of the character.

The series is generally fine with viewers not knowing or caring who Sam Spade was before. Film lovers will remember that Brigid is the Mary Astor character from the film, but it doesn’t matter if you don’t — just as it doesn’t matter if audiences don’t catch the reference to Barton MacLane’s Dundy or can’t recognize that a story Spade recounts to Gabrielle in a flashback was in Hammett’s novel, but not the film. Everything feels like it could be a reference, but nothing needs to be; the key use of the “Colonel Bogey March,” for example, might be a cheeky nod to Humphrey Bogart, but since the composition — you know it from The Bridge on the River Kwai or The Parent Trap — actually predates the legendary star, it might just be a coincidence.

More practically, “Colonel Bogey March” has ties to the British military in various colonial contexts, and ties into French colonialism in a story that’s been set with France’s war with Algeria as a backdrop. Spade wants to be the smartest guy in the room, but he doesn’t really understand France’s modern history, either as it relates to Algeria or to internal fissures during World War II. What isn’t always as clear is whether Spade cares to learn, or if Frank and Fontana care if the audience learns. Instead, more frequently, Monsieur Spade plays as a series of red herrings escalating toward a finale that, fittingly, is a bunch of people shooting each other in the dark with limited regard to geography or motivation.

It’s a six-episode build to chaos that can only be cleared up by a cameo from an Emmy-winning actress who appears out of nowhere, spends 15 minutes insulting everybody for their role in the mess and then leaves. That sounds like hacky drama, but the guest actor is so good, and so spectacular with Owen, that my pivot from uninterested to entirely engaged was swift. Plus, it isn’t like The Maltese Falcon is a work of impeccable logic. It’s simply impeccable.

Owen, thankfully, isn’t doing anything that resembles a Humphrey Bogart impression. He’s affecting a general mid-Atlantic accent and effectively balancing the throwback machismo that has grounded his work since Croupier with awareness that he and Spade are both approaching 60. The character has been stripped of a lot of what makes him iconic — his fedora remains mostly on a shelf and, at the urging of a doctor, he’s fighting the desire to smoke constantly — and Owen mines poignance from Spade realizing that smug superiority doesn’t always play when your adversaries are younger and tougher, if not necessarily smarter, than you.

Monsieur Spade soars when it’s just Owen verbally sparring with his various co-stars, which can be just as satisfying when the back-and-forth is about condiments for an omelet as when it’s about murder. He and Ménochet are especially good together, though I also quite enjoyed the banter between Spade and a pair of British neighbors (concealing very obvious secrets) played by Matthew Beard and Rebecca Root. I wish the series had more of a sense of Teresa as a character, though especially in the last two episodes Bossom and Owen find appealing comic undertones to their interactions. It still weakens the show that Bourgoin, Mastroianni, Weber and Zaccaï are stuck playing characters who seem interesting enough to be the heroes and villains in their own lives but are, instead, interlopers and pawns in Spade’s thwarted retirement.

The stories just don’t come together frequently enough in Monsieur Spade, but with gorgeous scenery, crackling dialogue and Owen’s best TV role in years, there’s still enough to give this venerable character some new life.

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• Black Mirror: Bandersnatch • Black Mirror • Black Museum (Black Mirror) • Black Tie (30 Rock) • Black Widower • Black and Blue (Better Call Saul) • Black and Blue (Homicide: Life on the Street) • Olly Blackburn • The Blacklist • Blackwater (Game of Thrones) • Blame It on the Alcohol • Blame It on Lisa • The Blessing Way (The X-Files) • Blind Ambition (Family Guy) • Blind Date (30 Rock) • Blink (Doctor Who) • The Blip • Blood Drive (The Office) • Blood Feud (The Simpsons) • Blood Oath (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) • Blood Relatives (Millennium) • Blood (The X-Files) • Blood Ties (Homicide: Life on the Street) • Blood of My Blood • Bloodletting (The Walking Dead) • Bloodline (Fringe) • Blue Harvest • The Blunder Years • Boardwalk Empire (Boardwalk Empire episode) • The Boat (The Office) • Bob Fires the Kids • The Bob Next Door • The Bold Type • Angie Bolen • The Book Job • Book of the Stranger • Boom (Doctor Who) • Boom Town (Doctor Who) • Missy Booth • Booze Cruise (The Office) • Bop Gun (Homicide: Life on the Street) • Borderland (Star Trek: Enterprise) • Born Again (The X-Files) • Born Free (Dexter) • Born This Way (Glee) • Both of You, Dance Like You Want to Win! • Bound (Fringe) • Bound (Star Trek: Enterprise) • Box Cutter (Breaking Bad) • The Box (Fringe) • Boy Meets Curl • Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood • The Boy Who Knew Too Much (The Simpsons) • Boys' Club (Parks and Recreation) • Boys and Girls (The Office) • The Boys in the Bar • Boyz 4 Now • Rachel Bradley • Branch Closing • Branch Wars • Brand X (The X-Files) • Brave (Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous) • Brawl in the Family (The Simpsons) • The Break-Up (30 Rock) • Breaking Bad (Better Call Saul) • Breaking Out Is Hard to Do • Breaking the Fourth Wall (WandaVision) • Sian Breckin • Brian Griffin's House of Payne • Brian: Portrait of a Dog • Brian the Bachelor • Brian & Stewie • Brian's Got a Brand New Bag • The British Invasion (Dexter) • Britney/Brittany • Britney and Kevin: Chaotic • Britten family • Kyle Broflovski • Broke (The Office) • Broken Home (Body of Proof) • The Broken Man • Broken World (Millennium) • Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes? • Brother from Another Series • Brother from the Same Planet • Brother's Little Helper • Brown Betty (Fringe) • Bruno Mars: 24K Magic Live at the Apollo • Bekah Brunstetter • Brush with Greatness • The Brute Man • The Bubble (Parks and Recreation) • The Bubble (30 Rock) • Bulbasaur • Mike Bullen • George Burditt (writer) • Buried Secrets (Body of Proof) • The Burning Zone • Burns, Baby Burns • The Burns Cage • Burns' Heir • Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk • Business Guy • Business School (The Office) • Butterfly (TV series) • Butters' Bottom Bitch • Buy, Buy Baby • The Buzz on Maggie • Bye Bye Nerdie • Joseph Byrne (Holby City) • C-SPAN • The C Word (30 Rock) • CBUVT • Cabin Fever (Lost) • Cafe Disco • The Call of the Simpsons • Callie and Her Sister • The Calusari • The Camel (Parks and Recreation) • Felipe Camiroaga • Camping (Parks and Recreation) • Can You Hear Me? (Doctors) • The Canine Mutiny • Canvassing (Parks and Recreation) • Captain James • Captain Midnight broadcast signal intrusion • Captive Pursuit • Drew Carey • Boone Carlyle • Carnie Wilson: Unstapled • John Carpenter (game show contestant) • Carpenter Street (Star Trek: Enterprise) • Zoe Carpenter • The Carpet (The Office) • Carrie (2002 film) • Carrot and Stick • Carry On (Supernatural) • Adam Carter • Chris Carter (screenwriter) • Mandy Carter (Ackley Bridge) • Eric Cartman • Cartman's Mom Is a Dirty Slut • The Cartridge Family • Casino Night • Casino Royale (Climax!) • Dan Castellaneta • Castiel (Supernatural) • Casual Friday (The Office) • Casualty series 29 • Casualty series 30 • Casualty series 31 • Catalysts (The Spectacular Spider-Man) • Catch 21 • Category 6: Day of Destruction • Cause and Effect (Star Trek: The Next Generation) • Leanna Cavanagh • CFVO-TV • Chair Model • Chalk (TV series) • The Cham-Cham • A Change Is Gonna Come (Grey's Anatomy) • Change Your Life (Little Mix song) • Christine Chapel • Graham Chapman • Chapter 1 (House of Cards) • Chapter 1 (Legion) • Charlie Don't Surf (Veronica Mars) • Chartjackers • Cordelia Chase • The Chase (Desperate Housewives) • The Chase (Doctor Who) • Heather Chasen • Asim Chaudhry • Cherokee Rose (The Walking Dead) • Chic C'est la Vie • Chick Cancer • The Child (Star Trek: The Next Generation) • Children and Television: Lessons from Sesame Street • Chimera (The X-Files) • China (The Office) • The Chinese Restaurant • Chinga (The X-Files) • Chippendales Audition • Chitty Chitty Death Bang • A Chorus L