As usual, I couldn't entirely follow the plot -- partly, let me add, because it was hard to make out all the dialogue -- but the look of this production was superb, ditto the atmosphere, the sense of time and place. (Those Hungarian location managers deserve much praise.) The performances are all first-rate. Rowan Atkinson is a surprisingly sour, solemn, owlish, glum, taciturn little Maigret, and he's not especially likable; that's far from the character I remember from the books, and one wonders why Madame Maigret is so faithful to him. However, he does leave one with the impression that he'd be capable of actually solving a knotty murder. And it was pleasing, in this particular story, to see Dorothy Atkinson again (surely no relation) -- always a fascinating actress.
Review of Maigret: Night at the Crossroads
