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has become one of Netflix’s biggest international hits. This modern-day riff on Maurice Leblanc’s early 1900s Arsène Lupin novels about a gentleman thief sits comfortably astride a large gap in the TV crime universe – the one between grimy noirish thrillers and cosy whodunits.
remains stylishly Gallic. For greater authenticity, Netflix viewers can always switch to subtitled French., an intense drama bout the Arab-Israeli conflict, but well-dubbed American voices work in frothier shows like this. Claire, however, is having none of it, so he sets his sights instead on a priceless black pearl that is being stored under tight security at posh jewellers on the Place Vendôme.