Die Detektivin

A female private detective investigating the death of a colleague discovers that he has been murdered whilst investigating a property company which is buying property in the centre of Paris. Then working on another job she meets her seventeen year old son whom she has not seen for fifteen years.

An enjoyable film. Anemone is funny and acts well, and is certainly different to the usual French female stars. The only time she dresses up she looks like a man in drag. Plenty of different storylines keep the plot interesting but they all tie up too neatly at the end.

Maxime is a rather unusual 40-year old private detective who smokes a lot but only drinks fanta-lemon. She sleeps with men and women in between observing people and arguing with her boss. A co-worker at the agency dies under strange circumstances and while she tries to solve this and another case she meets her son, whom she hasn't seen for 17 years. But working these cases and coming to terms with getting older proves to be her hardest job ever. Morality, justice, individual freedom, love, and middle-age crisis are all scrutinized under Maxime's old and new magnifying glass.

Pas Tres Katholique is a very enjoyable film that starts a bit slow but gets better and better. Anenome and Gregoire Colin as her son are fascinating and very natural. It's very rare to see a woman play such a strong character and at the same time losing her sense of direction because of surprising twists of life. Pas Tres Katholique is a mix between a policier, a drama and a comedy which makes it serious, funny and very entertaining.