Les sentiers de Fred Vargas

A film by Christophe Cognet

“One always wants the imagination to be the power to shape images. When in fact, it is the power to deform and change images. If there is no change in images, it’s that there is no imagination.” Gaston Bachelard Fred Vargas is among detective literature’s most original writers in that throughout her work she puts humor to use in an imagination-tinted world. Through interviews and off beaten paths, we discern her vividly spirited personality and the writing process of a detective writer who has created her own universe where logic flirts with fantasy, absurdity and surrealism.