La Mante

La Mante

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Release Date

9/4/2017

Runtime

6 eps, 312 mins

Overview

Jeanne Deber, known as "La Mante", the famous serial murderer who terrorized France more than 20 years ago, is forced by the police to come out of isolation to track down her copycat. She agrees to collaborate on one condition: to have only one interlocutor, Damien Carrot, her son, who became a cop because of the crimes of his mother, and who refuses all contact with her since her arrest.

Status

Ended

Original Language

French

Budget

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Revenue

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A dark psychological thriller that forces a serial killer and her estranged cop son into a dangerous partnership to stop a copycat murderer. It's a taut cat-and-mouse game layered with the unresolved trauma of their fractured relationship.

Mood

Dread-soakedTenseMelancholicParanoid

Themes

RevengeObsessionFamilyIdentityMortality

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Propulsive

Look

NaturalisticDocumentary-like

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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