The Mystery of Henri Pick (2019) (2025)

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• Review by Ncamcam ★★★

  Camille Cottin I’d die for you

• Review by Pauline ✨ ★★★★

  poetic and almost magical in a way only french movies can be. i loved it from start to finish, and didn't want it to end. Camille Cottin is amazing (10/10 would die for her), and i'm very very happy her and Luchini got to act together again; their scenes in Dix Pour Cent were amazing and i was hoping they would do something else together.

  [THIS MIGHT BE A BIT OF A SPOILER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW ANYTHING AT ALL]
  the only downside, for me, is that i'm not a fan of the resolution of the mystery. i feel like the person who wrote the book is the least interesting character they could have gone with, and, most of all, a character i hated. despite that, it was smart and made sense, so i didn't hate it either.

• Review by victoria mesquita ★★★★★

  dedico essas subestimadas cinco estrelas, especialmente, à M.

• Review by maneleeo ★★½

  It reminded me of the course a mystery by Claude Chabrol would take, however without the playfulness, wit and craft I associate with such a director. It is fun at times, but it felt a bit underwhelming with the easy humour. The actors are quite good nonetheless, and I believe they've done a fine job with their characters.

• Review by 🦋 nova ★★★

  - Vous n'allez quand même pas nous menacer avec votre binette ?
  - Non, ça c'est une serfouette.

• Review by C_elegans ★★★½

  In Der geheime Roman des Monsieur Pick wird eine etwas andere Detektivgeschichte erzählt, in der es erfrischenderweise mal nicht um die Aufdeckung eines Verbrechens geht. Die doch recht simple Story wird durch den angenehm leichten Erzählstil und gute Darsteller aufgewertet und so entfacht der Film, ähnlich wie das kleine Mysterium innerhalb der Handlung, einen gewissen Zauber.

• Review by Phoebe ★★★½

  (English review below)

  Je peux dire avec confiance que ce film c'est l'un des films les plus français que j'ai jamais vu. Et c'est un compliment; tout à fait charmant et véritablement drôle, c'est différent du 'whodunnit' classique mais au lieu de meutre, on a la littérature.

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  Almost all French films just have this air of Frenchness about them and there's literally no other way to put it than 'that's so French.' This is the perfect example of the Frenchiest of French films and I loved it. Utterly charming and genuinely funny, it offers a twist on the classic 'whodunnit' but instead of murder, we have literature.

• Review by Jade ★★★ 2

  I’m sorry to be that person but..... the book was better

• Review by lallamalika ★★★★★

  I wish I was in quarantine with Fabrice Luchini.. i feel like he knows everything, he’s fascinating. I know that’s weird but he’s in my top 10 favorite French actors

• Review by sebastian_drogo ★★★½

  Thriller letterario ad incastro, commedia di caratteri che non si perita di discettare di filosofia e letteratura, un investigatore (pardon, un critico letterario) che ha il volto e le movenze del grande Fabrice Luchini, un autore misterioso, un catalogo dei libri rifiutati dagli editori; c'è molto di azzeccato in questo film, a cominciare dai dialoghi, fra Platone, Puskin e Marguerite Duras, nelle situazioni tutte trattate con acume, buon gusto e divertita irriverenza, nei luoghi scelti per la detection,
  fra la Parigi dei salotti letterari e la provincia bretone dei club del libro e delle piccole biblioteche.
  Ancora una volta l'industria cinematografica d'oltralpe si dimostra sul pezzo e pur senza strafare firma un'altra opera interessante e preziosa.

• Review by Giulia ★★½

  The only effect this movie had on me is that now I want to live in Bretagne

• Review by Reid ★★★½

  The ending reveal was kinda boring and disappointing, and I hated the forced sexual tension between Luchini’s very unappealing character and (the iconic) Camille Cottin’s much more appealing character. The movie itself was fine though, I liked the conceit of the literary whodunit, and small town Brittany is a very nice setting