THE MYSTERY OF HENRI PICK 2010) ¢ ¢ ¢ 1/2
D: Rémi Bezançon
Fabrice Luchini, Camille Cottin, Alice Isaaz,
Bastien Bouillon, Josiane Stoléru, Hanna Schygulla
In a dimly lit room in a small-town library, a book editor comes across an unpublished manuscript which she manages to get into print. The book becomes a runaway bestseller, but a famous critic doesn't believe the author, a local pizza chef who's been dead for two years, could be the one who wrote it. He decides to find out who did. A whodunit that's really more of a who-wrote-it, in which the dead man's defenders, with whom you're inclined to sympathize, could be motivated by something more than literary authenticity, while the critic, who's the personification of smug condescension, isn't necessarily wrong. Other than wanting to ban them, when was the last time anybody in the real world paid this much attention to books?
