Fabrice Luchini wears The Henri Pick Mystery (review)

Rémi Bezançon adapts the literary thriller by David Foenkinos, to be seen this evening on France 3 unencrypted.

Before Crime on the 3rd Floor, the Belgian director Rémi Bezançon launched us in the footsteps of Mystery of Henri Pick.

Is an author necessarily a cultured person? This is the central question that runs through this Mystery of Henri Pickwhose story takes us to the depths of Brittany where a young publisher discovers a manuscript in a library housing all the books refused by publishers.

There, in a pile of mediocrities, she comes across this hidden nugget, written by Henri Pick, a pizza maker who died two years earlier, who had never shown any interest in literature. The novel becomes a literary phenomenon……