Inspector Maigret on Film

October 8–22, 2016

Three films focusing on Georges Simenon's fictional detective: Duvivier's 1933 La tête d'un homme, Renoir's La nuit du carrefour (1932), and Chabrol's 2009 Inspector Bellamy.

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  • La tête d’un homme

  • Inspector Bellamy

  • La nuit du carrefour

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  • La tête d'un homme

    Julien Duvivier
    France, 1933

    Archival Print

    Saturday, October 8 6 PM

    The famed Inspector Maigret roams crowded Montparnasse cafes and dingy tenements as he hunts for a nihilistic, Dostoevskian killer. Both a classic film noir and a seminal police procedural.

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  • La nuit du carrefour

    Jean Renoir
    France, 1932

    Archival Print

    Friday, October 14 6:30 PM

    Inspector Maigret's first onscreen appearance, made in in collaboration with Simenon. "The only great French detective film" (Jean-Luc Godard).

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  • Inspector Bellamy

    Claude Chabrol
    France, 2009
    Saturday, October 22 8 PM

    Chabrol's final film stars Gérard Depardieu as a police commissioner very much like Inspector Maigret in this "diabolically witty homage to Simenon" (Stephen Holden, NY Times).

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