A Lapse in Judgment (2020)

Any resemblance to persons living or dead or actual events would be strangely coincidental. In a town in the east of France, Sylvestre Ruppert Levansky, a president of the circuit court, begins his last trial, in the same place his career began. Everything here reminds him of Rachel, his first love, and most of all, Mathilde, a manipulative, diabolic serial killer. The old magistrate has a spotless reputation. He is considered tolerant and fair. But then a police officer from his past asks to see him. Perhaps the legend of Sylvestre, the eminent judge, isn’t so cut and dry. In a gripping tale full of surprises, Denis Robert and Franck Biancarelli reinvent the thriller.