Fred Vargas Collection (TV Series)

France 2008-2010, 450 minutes
Dir. Josee Dayan
In French with English subtitles
Genres: Foreign Cinema, Television, Suspense/Crime / Policier, Euro-Crime

Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Helene Fillieres, Charlotte Rampling

Aroview: Four excellent French TV adaptations of crime fiction novelist Fred Vargas' popular policiers, with her famous protagonist, Detective Adamsberg, a craggy, hard-bitten personality in the tradition of other indelible, world weary crime investigators, i.e. Wallander and Montalbano.

Four feature-length episodes: "Neptune's Thunder", "The Chalk Circle Man", "Seeking Whom He May Devour", "A Dubious Place".