What IMDB has done now

I have discovered that IMDB is no longer treating Muertres à... as a series, and is instead treating each episode as a standalone movie. This means you can't anymore go to a Muertres à series page and select the episode list. The reorganization (or unorganization) happened some time between August 9 and 20. As a result, Opensubtitles has automatically followed suit, and the series page is gone. The exception are the Unassigned Episodes, which are now listed together on pages for each season. 

This makes it harder to find Muertres à subtitles, now you have to know the correct title and use Opensubtitles Search, or use VLC with the VLsub tool installed. Of course a third option is this blog. 

Meurtres à... “Memoires à Vif”

Episode:  Muertres à... "Memoires a Vif" (Raw Memories), runtime 1:28:55
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"Memoires a Vif" is a 2023 Meurtres à... installment set in Valbonne, a town north of Cannes in southeastern France. The cast features Stephane Freiss as Cmdr. Cedric Bonfanti, and Samy Naceri (star of the Taxi action films) as cafe owner Marwann. Meena Rayann plays Cedric's partner Cmdr. Leila Belhassen. The historical events, important both regionally and nationally, which are highlighted in the plot encompass colonialsim, immigration, racism, and factionalism.

Cedric (Stephane Freiss) and Leila (Meena Rayann)

I considered bailing on this episode when I learned it's going to be on Mhz in September, but I kept going because it's like a jigsaw puzzle, I can't quit.

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It's another sunny day in the Côte d'Azur, but it's a vexing one for Cmdr. Cedric Bonfanti, who has two independent-minded daughters. Bonfanti is heading back to work in Valbonne after several months of compassionate leave, spent with his mother in Italy. Because Cedric's family were immigrants.

Cedric is called to a homicide: the deputy mayor has been found dead, floating in his swimming pool, and tied with barbed wire. He had been expected at the unveiling of a plaque commemorating the Harkis, French Algerian army veterans. Who had to emigrate to France (not fully their idea). Cedric discovers his 'temporary' replacement, Leila Belhassen (her family were immigrants), is already at the crime scene and shows no signs of going home to Nice.

Meurtres à Arles

Episode:  Meurtres à Arles (Murders in Arles), runtime 1:28:09 Subtitles download link

Arles is a city of 50-55,000 located above the delta where the Rhone flows into the Mediterranean. The region is called the Camargue, and is known for its Roman antiquities, connections to Picasso, Gauguin, and Van Gogh, and the Camargue style of bullfighting in which the bull is not killed.

As the story opens, the annual Herdsmen's Games are underway in the two-millennia-old Arles Amphitheatre. As the new Arles Queen is about to be crowned, a horse drawn carriage enters the arena-- carrying the bloody body of Julien Brunet, businessman and president of the festival organization.

The police immediately spring into action, because Capt. Sarah Cortes (Constance Gay of Face à Face) is in the audience. She calls in her partner and bestie Cmdr. Lucas Pujol (François-David Cardonnel, Hugues on Le Bazar de la Charité), and their snarky lieutenant Marianne (Elodie Poux), and the team is on the case. The suspects: Aline the new Queen; Julien's brother Rémy, a councilman; Isabelle, a sound technician; Aline's father Emile; and maybe Dolores herself. But what about suspects not on the list?

Sarah and Lucas (Constance Gay (L) and François-David Cardonnel) touch base with Marianne (Elodie Poux), who is hilarious.

NOTES

The Arles Amphitheatre (0'11") dates to 90 A.D.

Sarah and her boyfriend Alex are on their way to the capelado (0'49"), the ceremony honoring raseteurs (bullfighters) and gardiens (herdsmen). Capelado comes from an old word meaning hat; notice the hat Alex is wearing.