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I selected this Meurtres a...-style TV film because I thought the setting and the Tower's history would be a good match for Bastille Day. And it so happens the opening scene does take place on the night of July 14.
The murder of a young YouTube influencer brings out Capt Laura Giordano (Flore Bonaventura from Magellan , others too numerous to list) to investigate. The case will be complicated and fraught with pressure because the crime scene is the Eiffel Tower. Laura's recovering from the emotional scars of an incident which will be revealed in due course, working this case is her boss Eric throwing her back in the pool.
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| Benoit Michel (L) and Flore Bonaventura |
One of Eric's conditions is that Laura work with The New Guy In Town, Capt Mathieu Béllanger, fresh from solving a big case in Beaumont. Together they explore behind the scenes at the Tower, investigate a killer desperate to protect a secret, reunite a family seeking to recover a valuable heirloom, and discover links to a pivotal moment in French history.
MISC
It’s been a while since I’ve included DHH subs, so reminder: I subtitle (in red) non-spoken sounds which are significant to the story. Red ellipses mean "previous sound repeats."
Words which appear on screen (eg signs, texts, episode titles and locators) I subtitle in green.
I identify significant characters the first time they say something. If a lot of characters are introduced quickly at the beginning, I identify them in green.
When an entire dialogue side is said from offscreen, I either a) identify the speaker, or b) put the subtitle toward the speaker's side of the screen.
I don't know why the Opensubtitles link didn't work the first time.
NOTES
The Champs-de-Mars (00'11”) is the park at the base of the Tower. Identifying it now means a later footnote isn't needed.
PC is Poste Commande, 'Command Post.'
For some reason I expected Maud (Leslie Carles, French Blood 1-3) would be our main protagonist, but her armband reads Sécurité. She does get a good tense sequence here though. The camera, as they say, loves her.
2'10”: I can't figure out what piece the chorus is singing.
2'31”: As far as I can tell there is no Salon Etoile (Star Lounge) in the Tower.
3'59”: The fireworks show from the Tower is really something.
4'42”: Here comes our heroine now.
5'38” cf: Mathieu is played by Benoit Michel, barely recognizable from his role as Nico on Astrid et Raphaelle.
Pau is 50 miles from the Spanish border.
Recall that Sciences Po (full name Institut d'études politiques de Paris ) is the top school for political science, economics, law, and sociology. She's saying Mathieu looks like a policy nerd.
Servi (6'08”) means 'served,' like 'served dinner,' here I think it means something like 'I'm all set/what more could I ask for.'
8'03”: The prior night's celebration is confirmed to have been Bastille Day, July 14. I had some doubt, The Damnation of Faust doesn't strike me as being a particularly patriotic opus.
11'27”: Charlie compliments Mathieu on his work in a case in Beaumont, which is not in the southwest, but in the center of France adjacent to Clermont-Ferrand.
Oddly, when Maud meets with Mathieu and Charlie (12'08") it's inside the police station, and she doesn't look like she came from outside– no coat, no bag. Maud could easily have been written as a plainclothes cop.
Mathieu mentions les vacances to his daughter Thaïs (18’52”), which translates to 'the holidays.' But since it's post-July 14 he specifically means the school holidays, which run from July 1 to September 1. I'm putting 'summer vacation.'
Mathieu asks Laura if she thinks he's just un gendarme de Provence , 'a gendarme from Provence'– or province (provincial). Beaumont isn't in Provence either, so 'provincial gendarme' it is.
Mathieu's apartment (30'07”) is located at 2 Avenue de Camoens, near Place du Trocadero.
The neighbor (30'27”) is a character with no name, played by Eve Dumon.
TSF (32'35”) is Telegraphie Sans Fil– 'Telegraph Without Wire' (wireless).
33'15”: It's not 'filmed' (filmé) if it's digital.
While the name Bernard Macol (33'50”) turns out to be a SPOILER, the bunker and tunnel do exist.
Clement's neighbor (38'34”) is another nameless role, played by Roger Cornillac. I assume he's related to Alice Cornillac, the influencer at the beginning.
Carouge (39'39”) means 'blackbird.'
44'54”: Kommando (German) is Commando (French), and means 'command' (noun) as well as 'strike team,' 'hit squad,' etc.
Avenue de General Leclerc (49'31”) is on the southern edge of Paris, and it's not far from the Peripherique beltway. But it's not an industrial zone.
A PC can be mobile, like the one Maud was talking to at the beginning, but a PC can also be fixed. So when Laura radios her PC from the car (49'46”), it's 'control/dispatch.'
À droite à gauche, 'left and right' (53'28”), also means 'here and there.'
I'm calling commande en la Tour, 'command in the Tower' (56'19”), a 'command post' too, to make clear it's not a verb.
The story of firefighters raising the French flag over the Tower during the Liberation (57'37”) is true, it happened on August 25, 1944.
NOTES
The Champs-de-Mars (00'11”) is the park at the base of the Tower. Identifying it now means a later footnote isn't needed.
PC is Poste Commande, 'Command Post.'
For some reason I expected Maud (Leslie Carles, French Blood 1-3) would be our main protagonist, but her armband reads Sécurité. She does get a good tense sequence here though. The camera, as they say, loves her.
2'10”: I can't figure out what piece the chorus is singing.
2'31”: As far as I can tell there is no Salon Etoile (Star Lounge) in the Tower.
3'59”: The fireworks show from the Tower is really something.
4'42”: Here comes our heroine now.
5'38” cf: Mathieu is played by Benoit Michel, barely recognizable from his role as Nico on Astrid et Raphaelle.
Pau is 50 miles from the Spanish border.
Recall that Sciences Po (full name Institut d'études politiques de Paris ) is the top school for political science, economics, law, and sociology. She's saying Mathieu looks like a policy nerd.
Servi (6'08”) means 'served,' like 'served dinner,' here I think it means something like 'I'm all set/what more could I ask for.'
8'03”: The prior night's celebration is confirmed to have been Bastille Day, July 14. I had some doubt, The Damnation of Faust doesn't strike me as being a particularly patriotic opus.
11'27”: Charlie compliments Mathieu on his work in a case in Beaumont, which is not in the southwest, but in the center of France adjacent to Clermont-Ferrand.
Oddly, when Maud meets with Mathieu and Charlie (12'08") it's inside the police station, and she doesn't look like she came from outside– no coat, no bag. Maud could easily have been written as a plainclothes cop.
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| 16'45": Clément's grandmother lives on Place Dalida in Montmartre, a street popular with tourists owing to the view it offers of Sacre Coeur Cathedral. -Place Dalida: Photo by Me. |
Mathieu mentions les vacances to his daughter Thaïs (18’52”), which translates to 'the holidays.' But since it's post-July 14 he specifically means the school holidays, which run from July 1 to September 1. I'm putting 'summer vacation.'
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| The first floor (22'16”) in Europe is the second floor in the US. |
Mathieu asks Laura if she thinks he's just un gendarme de Provence , 'a gendarme from Provence'– or province (provincial). Beaumont isn't in Provence either, so 'provincial gendarme' it is.
Mathieu's apartment (30'07”) is located at 2 Avenue de Camoens, near Place du Trocadero.
The neighbor (30'27”) is a character with no name, played by Eve Dumon.
TSF (32'35”) is Telegraphie Sans Fil– 'Telegraph Without Wire' (wireless).
33'15”: It's not 'filmed' (filmé) if it's digital.
While the name Bernard Macol (33'50”) turns out to be a SPOILER, the bunker and tunnel do exist.
Clement's neighbor (38'34”) is another nameless role, played by Roger Cornillac. I assume he's related to Alice Cornillac, the influencer at the beginning.
Carouge (39'39”) means 'blackbird.'
44'54”: Kommando (German) is Commando (French), and means 'command' (noun) as well as 'strike team,' 'hit squad,' etc.
Avenue de General Leclerc (49'31”) is on the southern edge of Paris, and it's not far from the Peripherique beltway. But it's not an industrial zone.
A PC can be mobile, like the one Maud was talking to at the beginning, but a PC can also be fixed. So when Laura radios her PC from the car (49'46”), it's 'control/dispatch.'
À droite à gauche, 'left and right' (53'28”), also means 'here and there.'
I'm calling commande en la Tour, 'command in the Tower' (56'19”), a 'command post' too, to make clear it's not a verb.
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| Laura's t-shirt with the cowboy (56'12”) reads in full, 'Marfa, Texas, US.' |
The story of firefighters raising the French flag over the Tower during the Liberation (57'37”) is true, it happened on August 25, 1944.
59'36": The mention of composer/musician Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) is a bit confusing. While it's tempting to think Quatuor à cordes de Gabriel Fauré is a quartet of musicians named after Fauré, it turns out Fauré wrote exactly one piece for string quartet, String Quartet in E Minor, Opus 121. I'm guessing the ticket/bookmark was to a performance of that work.
There is an actual Guarneri violin (maybe line of violins) named La Freccia, ‘the arrow’ (60’49”).
61’11”: This is another Paris tower, that of Saint-Jacques, located on Rue de Rivoli near town hall. It’s all that remains of a church destroyed in the Revolution. The grounds are now a very nice park.
64’36”: 35°C is 95°F.
F200,000 in 1975 (67’54”) was worth around $45,000, which is about $250,000 in 2025.
Laura says what sounds like extrême under her breath (68’48”). I think she means it in the sense of reaching her limit of patience, or ‘it’s about time.’
The historical marker to the 1944 firefighters (76’42”) appears to be a replica.
83’49”: A rare sighting of the double-fisted hammer-punch outside of Star Trek.
There is an actual Guarneri violin (maybe line of violins) named La Freccia, ‘the arrow’ (60’49”).
61’11”: This is another Paris tower, that of Saint-Jacques, located on Rue de Rivoli near town hall. It’s all that remains of a church destroyed in the Revolution. The grounds are now a very nice park.
64’36”: 35°C is 95°F.
F200,000 in 1975 (67’54”) was worth around $45,000, which is about $250,000 in 2025.
Laura says what sounds like extrême under her breath (68’48”). I think she means it in the sense of reaching her limit of patience, or ‘it’s about time.’
The historical marker to the 1944 firefighters (76’42”) appears to be a replica.
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| 80'00": The firefighters sing the national anthem. |
83’49”: A rare sighting of the double-fisted hammer-punch outside of Star Trek.
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