Commissaire Annie Gréco
(Émilie Gavois-Kahn) of the Commissariat de Lille is
back with Inspector Max Beretta (Arthur Dupont) and
psychologist Rose Bellecour (Chloé Chaudoye). Launched
in January 2021, the 1970s era of France 2's long-running
period crime drama Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie
continues with the excellent Quand les souris dansent.
Not based on an Agatha Christie novel, Quand les souris dansent was penned by the talented Belgian scriptwriter Thierry Debroux (1) and directed by Alexandre Coffre (Les
Aventures de Spirou et Fantasio). It was actually filmed before Mourir sur scène, the episode aired by France 2 in December 2021 after Le Vallon. Madame Maude runs a high-flying prostitution ring hidden behind a very exclusive club attended by politicians and industrialists, like Rose Bellecour's father Arnaud or the member of parliament and future finance minister Thierry Faucon.
When Maude is found strangled in her office, the investigation of Commissaire Gréco is complicated by the presence of Capitaine Cassandre Leclerc of the DST (Direction de la Surveillance du territoire) because the establishment is the key to an important oil contract with Uganda. Max meets Flore, one of Madame Maude's girls, and offers Faucon a ride. The case shakes up Annie for some personal reasons. Rose infiltrates Maude's club but once a psychologist, always a psychologist. Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie takes a break from its trademark fast-paced comedy with something more intimate, though the episode doesn't exclude humour.
"Madame Maude" is of course a reference to Fernande Grudet aka Madame Claude, who ran a network of expensive call girls for rich and powerful clients before making the news in France during the 1970s. Thierry Debroux's work is served by a cast of quality: Olivia Côte (César Wagner) as Cassandre, Valérie Dashwood — who previously appeared in the episode Le cheval pâle — as Maude, Louise Grinberg (Mona), Aude Legastelois (Death in Paradise) as Flore, Carolina Jurczak (Marion), Jean-Louis Cassarino (Faucon), Vassili Schneider (Antoine), Jean-Benoît Ugeux (Serge), Ener Tambwe (Janus), etc.
Also with Quentin Baillot (Alexandra Ehle) as Commissaire divisionnaire Servan
Legoff, Benoît Moret (Pathologist Jacques Blum), Christèle Tual (Barbara Bellecour), Grégoire Oestermann (Arnaud Bellecour), Nicolas Lumbreras
as hippie hotel owner Bob, Savério Maligno (Rateau), Alexandre
Russo (Cassard) and Maryne Bertieaux (Delphine). Co-produced by Sophie Révil's Escazal Films and France
Télévisions, with the support of Pictanovo and Région
Hauts-de-France. Produced with the participation of TV5 Monde
and RTS Radio Télévision Suisse. Sophie Révil
and Denis Carot are the line producers. James Prichard,
Basi Akpabio and Leo Desoyza are the associate
producers for Agatha Christie Ltd.
Cvetanka Atanasova is the production manager. Music composed and conducted by Stéphane
Moucha. Cinematography by
Jean-François Hensgens. Production designed by Moundji
Couture. Costumes by Céline Guignard. Edited by Sophie Fourdrinoy. Casting by Michaël Laguens. Main title sequence designed by Romain Segaud. Characters
created by Flore Kossinetz, Éliane Montane, Gabor Rassov and Sophie
Révil. Distributed by France Télévisions Distribution. Quand les souris dansent will be shown by France 2 on April 29th.
(1) Thierry Debroux wrote several episodes for the previous eras of Les petits meurtres d'Agatha Christie.
Special thanks to Christophe Kerambrun.
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