Crime Scenes (2000)
Crime Scenes is a noirish crime drama about two forensic cops on the trail of serial murderer. Georges Fabian and Jean-Louis Gomez are put on the case when Marie — the teenaged daughter of a couple who own a roadside cafe — vanishes the day after the family dog disappears. Georges’ schoolteacher wife is expecting their first child, while Jean-Louis’ spouse walked out on him days after their daughter left home. The two discover a magazine daubed with Marie’s blood in the eatery’s lobby, and with the help of a police dog, they discover a canine corpse across the street. Later, when the bodies of a young white woman and a black man are unearthed sans heads and hands, Georges and Jean-Louis think that they have at last found Marie. In fact, they’ve hit upon a ritual murder similar to a series of killings that baffled the Belgian police in 1993. The two then begin to doggedly gather clues and witnesses.
Director: Frédéric Schoendoerffer
Actors: André Dussollier, Charles Berling, Élodie Navarre, Éva Darlan, Hubert Saint-Macary
