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Spiral: Series 2 DVD, 2008

aka Engrenages

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A gritty police procedural with a dash of a modern noir, Spiral (Engrenages) has been thrilling people with its classy, complex storytelling over on BBC4. And how refreshing it is to see a non-American crime drama on our screens!

 

The superb French police drama Spiral has gained a loyal following on BBC Four, and you don't have to be a detective to work out why. Like CSI, it boasts dashing investigators and extraordinarily gruesome murders, but the bleak Parisian setting, mordant dialogue and the tangled lives of its flawed protagonists lend what would otherwise be a standard police procedural thriller the class of a modern noir, with grainy, handheld, camerawork capturing stark, dimly-lit offices and billows of cigarette smoke.

Spiral centres around the triumvirate of impossibly handsome Deputy Prosecutor Pierre Clément (Grégory Fitoussi), tenacious Police Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and steel-eyed Judge François Roban (Philippe Duclos). Each series centres around a single, shocking murder, sparking an investigation which soon expands to reveal corruption and betrayal involving the investigators themselves, with stories exploring different aspects of the judicial system.

Series 3 has yet to hit British screens, so now is the perfect time to revisit the first two series on DVD, or explore this gripping, well-made drama for the first time.

 

MovieMail on 28th July 2010
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Film Information

Director - Various (TV)

Produced - 2008

Main Language - French with English subtitles

Countries & Regions - European Film, French Film

Cast - Gregory Fitoussi, Caroline Proust

 

 

DVD Details

Certificate: 18 Publisher: BBC Region: 2
Length: 400 mins Cat No: BBCDVD3221  
Format: DVD Colour  

 

 

DVD Extras

  • 2 discs

 

 

Film Description

The hard-hitting and critically acclaimed French police thriller returns for a second series as Pierre Clement and Police Captain Laure Berthaud descend into the paranoid rivalries of the drug trafficking underworld. Unflinchingly realistic, the series follows the investigators, each with their own personal demons, into the dark world of organised crime. As a seemingly isolated case of urban violence grows in complexity and danger, each new piece of evidence unearths a duplicitous world of international trafficking, informers, double lives and arms dealing. As the suspense builds, an audacious plan to strike at the heart of the crime network means that the slightest slip will result in certain death.

 

 

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