A rather fine film although there is very little excitement, until at the start and the end, also the tale is rather sad and we really have no wonderful Paris but it is moody and melancholic although the scenes between Maigret and Madam and his food are rather good. Patrice Leconte is now 76 but he still has the touch and there is some humour especially with Ridicule (1996) with games and wit at the court of Versailles. The Hairdresser's Husband (1990) splendid and sexy and the wonderful Monsieur Hire (1989) a peeping Tom also best of a Simenon story. Gerard Depardieu is great in this and in his later films many have been very good and I really liked him in Welcome to New York (2014) directed my Abel Ferrara surrounding the events of Dominique Strauss-Kahn's attack of the maid. I loved the TV Maigret series in the early 60s starring Rupert Davies and some of the exteriors filmed in Paris which was marvellous and the new film is not as pretty but still interesting and telling a tale set in the 30s.
Review of Maigret
