Why did Simenon, a novelist who contributed so much to the seventh art, like to say he hated cinema? Because he could never become a director? Because, claustrophobic, he was unable to lock himself in a projection room? Clearly, there is an affair between the writer and the cinema and Georges Simenon is the main protagonist. An investigation that is more topical than ever as Patrice Leconte has announced his project to adapt an investigation by the famous superintendent Maigret.