Is putting on Captain Virtue’s cop costume enough to escape your past?
In France, Laure Vertu, a police captain, resigns after more than ten years of active service in the anti-fraud brigade. Written in lucid prose, Captain Virtue is a short and dream-infused noir, in which Lucie Taïeb takes hold the police genre to all the better subvert it. Hard boiled and hallucinatory, she offers a kind of feminine Bartleby who stands in stubborn opposition to the “world as it is”, to its violence, its denials, its compromises, and its false hopes.
