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Maldoror

Play trailer Poster for Maldoror 2024,  2h 35m,  Crime/ Drama/ Mystery & Thriller Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist 77% 13 Reviews Tomatometer - - Popcornmeter
77% Tomatometer 13 Reviews Popcornmeter
When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Sep 5, 2024
2/5
It’s a long film which finally -- and rather perfunctorily -- voyages into the murky waters of deep-state conspiracy, and the drama doesn’t really have the rhetorical resources or the performances to make that case plausibly or interestingly. Go to Full Review
Kent Hill Film Threat Jan 20, 2026
7.5/10
To the director Fabrice, his co-writer Domenico La Porta, the entire cast and crew, Maldoror is a picture that invokes memories of great filmmakers and their contributions to the genre, whilst staying culturally unique and period perfect. Go to Full Review
Frank J. Avella The Contending Dec 19, 2024
B
Du Weiz packs a lot into this 155-minute nail-biter, yet I wish he’d given us a bit more since the film is quite confusing at times, especially in the second half. Bajon keeps us transifxed. Go to Full Review
Amber Wilkinson Eye for Film Oct 5, 2024
3.5/5
Although this is set in the Nineties, the gritty feel makes it redolent of Seventies-set thrillers, a mood reinforced by the way that du Welz embeds us in Paul’s life from the start. Go to Full Review
Rocco T. Thompson Daily Dead Sep 25, 2024
4.5/5
Though the film is long, there’s clammy pleasure and howling pathos in picking at its knotted narrative while watching Bajon’s anti-hero slide measure-by-measure into a hell borne of his own obsession. Go to Full Review
Jeff Nelson Guy at the Movies Sep 23, 2024
2/5
Maldoror speaks on a very unnerving side of humanity, but it doesn’t go anywhere. Go to Full Review
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Cast & Crew

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Fabrice Du Welz

Director

Anthony Bajon

Actor

Alba Gaïa Kraghede Bellugi

Actor

Alexis Manenti

Actor

Sergi López

Actor

Laurent Lucas

Actor

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Maldoror

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Movie Info

Synopsis When two girls go missing, Paul Chartier, an impulsive young police recruit, is assigned to “Maldoror”. This secret unit has been set up to monitor a dangerous sex offender. When the operation fails, fed up with the limits of the legal system, Chartier embarks on a solitary hunt to bring down the culprits.
Director
Fabrice Du Welz
Screenwriter
Fabrice Du Welz, Domenico La Porta
Genre
Crime, Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
French
Runtime
2h 35m
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