Series

L'art du crime

( Season 3 )
A policeman and an art historian investigate crimes linked to art and cultural works. A field where one excels and the other is only just discovering.

Episodes

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Episode 1: Phantom at the opera

The body of a trainee-dancer is found at the Opéra Garnier, a poem by the artist Edgar Degas forced down his throat. Legend says that the ghost of the "Little Fourteen Year-Old Dancer", emblematic work by Degas of which the school owns a copy, haunts the building and attacks dancers.

Directed by: Elsa Bennett, Hippolyte Dard (season 3, France, 2019)
Screenplay: Angèle Herry-Leclerc, Pierre-Yves Mora, Hélène Duchâteau, Julie-Anna Grignon, Christophe Joaquin
Episode
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Episode 2: The curse of Osiris

As she was assessing an ancient Egyptian box, a young woman becomes delirious and collapses, dead. Toxicological analyses reveal the presence of a powerful hallucinogen used by the Egyptian priests and the translation of the hieroglyphs on the box evokes a curse relating to Osiris, Egyptian god of the dead...

Directed by: Elsa Bennett, Hippolyte Dard (season 3, France, 2019)
Screenplay: Angèle Herry-Leclerc, Pierre-Yves Mora, Hélène Duchâteau, Julie-Anna Grignon, Christophe Joaquin