Back in Crime

The two (or was it three?) likable main characters kept me watching this impossible French time travelogue police drama - an aging homicide detective with a head injury goes back 20 years to hunt a serial killer while continously encountering a shrink from Genoa. The cop is compelled to track down the elusive Earwig Killer who shatters eardrums of his victims by high-tech means, not the insect, before murdering them. Inspector Kemp wants to change history by preventing the murders but apparently is unaware that the renegade Time Lord Dr Who has decided that changing history is a no-no - but I digress! Back in Crime (L'autre vie de Richard Kemp) is set in an industrial port city (Cucq) north of Amiens, nowhere near Paris as the short MHZ film description suggests. The locales are dark and gloomy, with deep waters, high bridges, outmoded pay phones, dark alleys and abandoned buildings but the apartment buildings where much of the story unfolds is pretty swank.