“Spiral” – The Vortex [MOVIE REVIEW]
Thierry Godard as Gilou and Caroline Proust as Laure Berthaud in “Spiral.” Photo courtesy of MHz Choice. “Spiral” (“Engrenages”), the top notch police drama from France, premiers its seventh season on November 17 on MHz Choice. Originally created by Alexandra Clert and Guy-Patrick Sainderichin in 2005, Clert stayed on to guide and supervise the writing through all seven seasons. Alessandra Stanley of the New York Times declared it “one of the best crime dramas around.” “Spiral” is an intense look at the French justice system from all the intermeshed points of view. Intermeshed is the optimum expression as the title in French, “Engrenages,” can be interpreted as gears interlocking. A taut procedural and legal drama, each season follows a particular crime and its complex tendrils as the police work to solve the case with the cooperation, sometimes at cross-purposes, of the judge advocate assigned to the case. The defense is the monkey wrench thrown into the gears of justice. Since the first episode in 2005 until now, the core of that team remains. Laure Berthaud, former lead investigator of the team has just returned from several months at a psychiatric facility. Berthaud’s mental…
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