Maldoror

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Maldoror

2024

2h 35m

Mystery & Thriller

Crime

Drama

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When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

It’s a long film which finally -- and rather perfunctorily -- voyages into the murky waters of deep-state conspiracy, and the drama doesn’t really have the rhetorical resources or the performances to make that case plausibly or interestingly.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 5, 2024

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

Du Weiz packs a lot into this 155-minute nail-biter, yet I wish he’d given us a bit more since the film is quite confusing at times, especially in the second half. Bajon keeps us transifxed.

Rated: B

Dec 19, 2024

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Amber Wilkinson

Eye for Film

Although this is set in the Nineties, the gritty feel makes it redolent of Seventies-set thrillers, a mood reinforced by the way that du Welz embeds us in Paul’s life from the start.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 5, 2024

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Rocco T. Thompson

Daily Dead

Though the film is long, there’s clammy pleasure and howling pathos in picking at its knotted narrative while watching Bajon’s anti-hero slide measure-by-measure into a hell borne of his own obsession.

Rated: 4.5/5

Sep 25, 2024

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Jeff Nelson

Guy at the Movies

Maldoror speaks on a very unnerving side of humanity, but it doesn’t go anywhere.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 23, 2024

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Martin Kudlac

ScreenAnarchy

By filtering a psychological and political drama through genre lenses, du Welz creates a film that is more a genre fare spectacle than true crime reconstruction, reframed for mainstream audiences.

Sep 21, 2024

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Synopsis

When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.

Director: Fabrice Du Welz
Producer: Jean-Yves Roubin, Christophe Hollebeke, Cassandre Warnauts, Manuel Chiche
Screenwriter: Fabrice Du Welz, Domenico La Porta
Production Co: Frakas Productions, WTFilms, The Jokers films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language: French
Runtime: 2h 35m