Gérard Depardieu takes the title role in this 2022 French-language mystery, playing a veteran Paris police commissioner pulled into a case that starts with a single, stark image: a young woman in an evening dress, found dead in a public square with no name attached to her.
What is Maigret about?
The film follows Commissioner Maigret as he works a case with almost nothing to go on beyond the body itself and the dress she was wearing. Before he can chase down what happened to her, he first has to answer a harder question: who she was at all. That search pulls him through unglamorous corners of Paris rarely shown in the polished version of the city, tracing a life that left almost no trace behind. Director Patrice Leconte keeps the pace deliberate rather than propulsive, treating the investigation as an exercise in patience and observation more than a chase. Gérard Depardieu plays the commissioner as a man closer to the end of his career than the start of it, weathered rather than sharp-edged, which gives the film a mood closer to a character study than a conventional procedural.
About the cast
Alongside Gérard Depardieu, the cast includes Anne Loiret, Aurore Clément, Mélanie Bernier, Jade Labeste, Clara Antoons, Pierre Moure, and Bertrand Poncet, filling out the circle of Parisians whose paths cross the investigation.
Context & significance
Maigret is a joint Belgium-France production credited under the genres Action, Mystery, and French, and runs a brisk 89 minutes. It carries a modest IMDb standing rather than a widely celebrated one, which fits a film more interested in mood and character than in twists. The 2022 release date places it as a compact, single-sitting mystery rather than a sprawling franchise entry, which suits viewers looking for something they can finish in one evening.
Watching Maigret on Ktime
Maigret streams on K-Time in its original French with no Persian dub or subtitle track attached. Reading about the film here is free and requires nothing; pressing play does need a K-Time account, which takes a moment to set up and works across the Farsi-first interface the rest of the catalogue uses.