Witnesses, Series 2
by Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux; dir. Hervé Hadmar (Channel 4, 2017)
subtitled, from ‘Les témoins’ (La Une, 2017)
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8-part French crime drama. Hadmar aims for moody and disturbing, drawing events out until the house of crazy comes tumbling down, exposing everything and everyone as bizarrely motivated and rather pointless. Marie Dompnier evinces the presence and mien to carry it through.
Witnesses, Series 1
by Hervé Hadmar & Marc Herpoux; dir. Hervé Hadmar
(Channel 4, 2015) [subtitled, from ‘Les Témoins’ (La Une, 2014)]
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6-part French miniseries. While Marie Dompnier is convincing as detective Sandra Winckler, the production as a whole suffers from manufactured intrigue (Thierry Lhermitte, in particular, is enigmatic without purpose) and a relentlessly over-scored, washed-out moodiness. The wolf is pure MacGuffin, inconsistently pursued.