Season 8 of “The art of crime” is scheduled from February 3 on France 2. And know if Florence Chassagne and Antoine Verlay will finally form a couple remains at the center of the plot …
Season 8 of The art of crime was scheduled from this Monday, February 3, 2025, at 9:05 p.m. on Monday, February 3, on France 2. The first episode of this new series of surveys begins with the discovery of the body of a young man, murdered in the forest of the Château de Chantilly. The macabre staging strangely imitates a painting by the great painter of the Renaissance Raphaël. The victim worked for a famous best-sellers author, Patricia Richter. Antoine and Florence are not long in discovering that the murderer has in fact scrupulously reproduced a situation described in the next book of the novelist, devoted precisely to the Italian painter. What is the link between the killer and the writer? Is it the same person or are we trying to make him take responsibility for the crime?
These questions will obviously fascinate the regulars of this series which makes the link between art and crime, as its name suggests. But another undoubtedly occupies the fans even more: the two heroes of The art of crimeFlorence Chassagne and Antoine Verlay, will they finally take the plunge and become a couple in its own right? Season 8 will still and always put this duo formed by the brilliant art historian (interpreted by Eléonore Bernheim) and the incorruptible cop (camped by Nicolas Gob).
The art of crimea love story to the “moonlight”
Beyond the police intrigue of The art of crimealways more baroque, the relationship between the two heroes, seized with an undeniable romantic tension, should still evolve in 2025. The latter have for several years have the greatest harm to take the plunge, blocked by their opposite personalities and their professional relationship . What is exactly the effect of the writers of the series, Angèle Herry-Leclerc and Pierre-Yves Mora, as they indicated in a promotional interview at France Télévisions recently.
The father and mother of The art of crime have indeed explained that they were inspired by a well -known fictional motive for this couple: “We work a fictional motive which is the ‘moonlight’. That is to say, they love each other, they do not Do not know it, but the spectator only sees that! “, They explain. “We try, we renew this genre by going as far as possible on this tension between the two, without for the moment … we will see until when! We are close to awareness if you want ! ” What finally has a real romantic scene to put in the tooth?
The art of crime Inspired on this point in the series Moonlightreleased in the 80s with Bruce Willis and Cybill Shepherd. The story of a couple who plays cat and mouse with an obvious, but always upset attraction. “They were indeed this couple who played cat and dog, we saw in an obvious way that they were made for each other, or at least that there was a strong attraction … and They were never together, “explain the two writers who fell in love. While waiting for it to also operate between Florence and Antoine …