We first encounter him in late-November 1975 at one of his regular soirees at his Bangkok compound Kanit House. When not keeping an eye on festivities, he’s tending to a young man suffering from what appears to be a severe fever. Shortly after, we see him altering a passport, replacing the existing photograph with one of himself. He then does the same with a young woman’s travel document, inserting a picture of his French-Canadian partner Marie (Jenna Coleman). Flash-forward two months and Dutch diplomat Herman Knippenberg (Billy Howle) is following up on concern from a countryman about his missing sister and her companion. Unable to get either the Dutch Ambassador or the Thai police interested, Knippenberg nonetheless decides to start doing some digging himself, becoming especially alarmed when his Australian counterpart regales him with a tale of two young people from his homeland who were found murdered and disfigured virtually beyond all recognition.
The Serpent Review: Tahar Rahim is Sinister as Serial Killer Charles Sobhraj News18 1 day ago
The Serpent
Director: Tom Shakland, Hans Herbots
Throughout the 1970s, Charles Sobhraj, a con-man, thief and a serial killer was at work targeting innocent tourists on their trips to South Asia. Charles, who went by many aliases, but most commonly Alain Gautier, would drug these tourists and in the pretense of taking care of them, would rob them of their money and legal documents. While he entrapped a few, he soon escalated his crimes to murder, getting rid of any witnesses who could turn him in to the police. He was suspected of killing at least 12 people, but authorities suspect him of killing many more.
SERIES REVIEW by Richard Roeper THE SERPENT Three stars
The eight-episode Netflix docudrama The Serpent just might hold the all-time record for number of flashbacks and flash-forwards in a limited series, as we continually zip a couple of years ahead or a few months back along the mid-1970s timeline a frustrating and utterly unnecessary and wildly overused device that consistently works against an otherwise fascinating, exotic, lurid period-piece true-crime story about a suave, identity-switching serial killer who makes Tom Ripley seem like an amateur.
Serpentine (I see what you did there) storyline concerns aside, The Serpent is an effectively unsettling, fictionalized telling of the incredible and horrific series of kidnappings and murders orchestrated by one Charles Sobhraj, played to suave and oily perfection by Tahar Rahim, the brilliant French actor last seen in The Mauritanian. (For most of the story, Sobhraj operates under the alias of Alain Gautier, so
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