Netflix's French crime caper 'Lupin' is thrilling to the core
CHENNAI: Stylish, sleek and thrilling, Netflix’s new show, French series “Lupin,” is a spinoff from a cult character created by writer Maurice Leblanc in 1905. Often seen as the French answer to Sherlock Holmes, Arsene Lupin was a master-thief-turned detective. In the film, Omar Sy (“The Intouchables”) plays Assane Diop, who replicates the methods of Lupin, often called the “Gentleman Burglar,” having read and re-read a book on Lupin, becoming a master of disguise and sleight of hand. The five-episode series is set in modern Paris, and opens with a shot of the illuminated pyra...
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