{"id":14992,"date":"2016-12-21T13:03:28","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14992"},"modified":"2016-12-21T13:03:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T18:03:28","slug":"the-return-of-the-byzantine-mystery-jean-christophe-granges-the-passenger-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14992","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Byzantine Mystery: Jean-Christophe Grang\u00e9&#8217;s The Passenger (2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14996\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14996\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14996\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_Agogue.jpg\" alt=\"Passenger2014_Agogue\" width=\"140\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_Agogue.jpg 512w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_Agogue-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dog bite? What dog bite?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jean-Christophe Grang\u00e9\u2019s novel <strong>Crimson Rivers <\/strong>became an international best-seller around 2001 and was furthered by a film adaptation which made some significant improvements on the novel\u2019s finale.<\/p>\n<p>The success of the two works also established Grang\u00e9 as a master of convoluted mysteries, and his latest work, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=14991\">The Passenger<\/a><\/strong> (2014), released on DVD via MHz Networks, is no exception.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_14997\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14997\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-14997\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_Anglade.jpg\" alt=\"Passenger2014_Anglade\" width=\"140\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_Anglade.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_Anglade-286x300.jpg 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-14997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pas Clouseau. Freire!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Starring the venerable Jean-Hugues Anglade (<strong>La Femme Nikita<\/strong>) and Rapha\u00eblle Agogu\u00e9, this limited TV mini-series provides everything fans of CR enjoyed, stretched over 6 episodes, and happily, it (mostly) makes sense. There are backstories and peripheral elements that are deliberate tactics to distract and prolong, but they don\u2019t infuriate and insult the viewer, making the series unfold like a tight, addictive movie serial.<\/p>\n<p><em>Coming next:<\/em> a review of Kent Jones\u2019 <strong>Hitchcock\/Truffaut <\/strong>documentary, and a podcast interview with <strong>Out of Print <\/strong>(2014) director Julia Marchese, supported by several related docs, including <strong>Dying of the Light <\/strong>(2015), on the withering art of film projection.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mark R. Hasan<\/strong>, Editor<br \/>\n<strong>KQEK.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Review of The Passenger  \/ Le Passager (2014), the French detective mini-series based on the novel and written by Jean-Christophe Grang\u00e9, and released on DVD via MHz Networks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[2562,2563,4854,4856,4855,4857],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Passenger2014_featured.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8nuyW-3TO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14992"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15003,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14992\/revisions\/15003"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}