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Mystère au Louvre (2017)

Mystère au Louvre poster
Directed by
Léa Fazer
Genre
crime, thriller, tv movie
Country
France
Runtime
1h 28m
Rating
6.8 of 10 from 12 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

In 1880s Paris, a young woman who is both a thief and a socialite disguises herself as a man to pull off a robbery at the Louvre museum. She finds herself caught between manipulating others and being manipulated herself.

mysteriouslightheartedwhimsicalplayfulsuspensefulwittybreezy

What happens

Mystère au Louvre is a 2017 French TV film, fourth in the Mystère à... series of television films (2011 to 2018) set in the Paris of the Belle Époque. It concerns a fictional robbery at the Louvre museum in the 1880s. It was written by Elsa Marpeau and Florent Meyer and directed by Léa Fazer, and stars Alice Taglioni, Philippe Torreton and Cyril Descours. The heroine is "both a manipulator and manipulated, a thief, disguised as a young man, a woman of the world, fragile and strong". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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