I've returned from spending most of two weeks at back-to-back film festivals, and coverage of both fests will be coming as soon as possible.First, though, a couple of film reviews!Regular readers know that I've fallen under the spell of French film noir and crime films, mostly thanks to an ongoing series of releases by Kino Lorber Studio Classics.Kino Lorber's latest release in this genre is MAIGRET SEES RED (1963), known in France as MAIGRET VOIT ROUGE.The film is a police procedural starring Jean Gabin as Police Commissioner Jules Maigret. It's actually the third film in a series, and Kino Lorber will release all three films in June as part of a three-film Maigret collection. MAIGRET SETS A TRAP (1958) and MAIGRET AND THE ST. FIACRE CASE (1959) will be boxed with MAIGRET SEES RED.I won't know until I watch those first two films if I missed anything significant ahead of viewing MAIGRET SEES RED, but it didn't feel like it. I enjoyed the film from the first moments, as a car drives…
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