L'Affaire Fourniret: Dans la tête de Monique Olivier

It has its ups and downs, but overall it's a well made documentary. I do have to say that it's a hard watch because the case is disturbing. And by that I mean really disturbing. It involves such young children (youngest being 9) and the details that are shared are sickening.

I genuinely feel like I wasn't prepared for this experience, cause the way they made this, with the police pictures of Olivier reenacting what happened and how it happened, made me feel like being there in a way, actively watching them commit their crimes. It's disturbing.

No true crime documentary has gotten to me this way before.

And for the people giving this below 5 stars for it being English dubbed, just keep the French and use subtitles. Do you never watch anything other than your own language?..

Of course this person is just as culpable as the rapist! She aided, abetted and even helped him become erect. Ugh. Wish I didn't know THAT.

This docuseries was far, FAR longer than necessary. In fact, if not for being dubbed, I'd have never made it through one episode. Six hours of reading subtitles was NOT going to happen.

If it isn't bad enough to know about all these innocent girls losing their lives but these evil creatures having a child in the midst of this!

After watching only half of this I need five steam showers and six appointments with my therapist.

No port for the wife, not at all.

Monique Olivier: Accessory to Evil, France's Rosemary West, she assisted her husband Michel Fourniret in the abduction, torture and rape of young women and girls. Disturbing, graphic descriptions of the crimes. One of the victims was English and a Detective Chief Superintendent is one of the talking heads. Unlike Rosemary but like Myra Hindley West Olivier has after many years helped police in the search for the bodies of missing victims. Some were found. She'll be eigible for parole 2032 but faces further trials. A bit stretched out in 5 episodes on Netflix, it could have been done in 3. Directed by Christophe Astruc and Michelle Fines. 7/10.

This review is not about the case nor should it be. It's about the trivial format of the docuseries. Rehashed ideas now in French. The viewer needs to hear every aspect of the case so you bring in psychology experts who mock the woman and her appearance and mimick her behavior as kids. Then you bring in her lawyer who someone thought "hey let's have a scene of him running with his tights and earphones and next scene smoking outside of court so viewers know he means business". Should have been 1 episode, the rest is taunting the victims for more screen time.

P. S. People who complain about the voice over instead of watching it with subs should have the right of voting revoked from them, I mean come on humanity.

A very well made documentary about one of the few French serial killer and his wife who essentially helped and enabled all the horror. They really go into a lot of the sordid details, so it's definitely not for the faint hearted.

Apparently some viewers have complained about the English audio dubbing, it seems they might not be aware that subtitles exist or just can't are too lazy to read them. Giving bad reviews for something like that is pretty sad.

It's too bad, because this show really deserves a watch, even though it's a difficult watch where the worst of human nature is put on display.