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REVIEWS La Belle Époque - Crowd-pleasing French romantic comedy

SORRY ANGEL
Starring Vincent Lacoste, Pierre Deladonchamps, Denis Podalydès, Rio Vega, Adèle Wismes, Thomas Gonzales, Clément Métayer, Quentin Thébault, Tristan Farge and Marlène Saldana. Directed by Christophe Honoré.

The intertwining journeys of Jacques, a worldly Parisian writer, and Arthur, a curious, carefree and much-younger university student who is just beginning to live. Brought together by chance, the two men find themselves navigating a casual fling that gradually deepens into a tender, transformative bond.

MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER
Starring Denis Podalydès, Anne Alvaro, Manuel Guillot, Irène Jacob, Dominique Reymond, Laurent Poitrenaux, Micha Lescot, Julia Faure, Jeremy Lewin and Olivier Rabourdin. Directed by Pascal Bonitzer.

Inspector Maigret is urgently summoned to the Quai d’Orsay: a former ambassador has been found shot dead by his long-serving housekeeper. But rather than contact the police, she has followed diplomatic protocols by first informing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Forewarned that he will find a series of salacious letters – and cautioned to be discreet - Maigret heads to the victim’s opulent apartment. He finds no forensic evidence at the crime scene, but certainly, the letters prove startling – secret, decades-spanning correspondence between the ambassador and the Princess of Vuynes, whose own husband, by strange coincidence, has also just died...