THE ORIGIN OF EVIL My predecessor on this column, Jonathan Romney, has suggested that Laure Calamy – the retroussé-nosed Noémie from Netflix’s delightful Call My Agent! – is the French Olivia Colman, a beloved TV fixture now showing her range in more expansive roles. Last year she took the lead in Éric Gravel’s Full Time as an exhausted single mum on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Now she relishes the opportunity to sink her teeth into the role of Nathalie, a fishpacker and fantasist with big plans and few qualms.
The poster suggests that is being marketed as a French twist on : a scabrous yet picturesque portrait of a wealthy patriarch in decline, surrounded by wives, daughters, granddaughters and servants, all bleeding him dry and surreptitiously plotting his demise. But it might be more fruitful to think of it as a contribution to the Ripley extended universe –