It is pitch dark, flashlights sweep through the forest, inspecting every grove. Disturbing music mingles with the song of the crickets, then the voice of a TV presenter. Who announces to the world, in this month of May 2007, the chilling news: the kidnapping of a British girl in a hotel complex in Algarve. Three and a half years, and nowhere to be found.
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From the first seconds, The Disappearance of Maddie McCann sets the tone: expectation, anguish, fear. Produced by Netflix and posted online last year, the documentary retraces, over eight dark and polished episodes, the twelve years of investigation around the disappearance of little Madeleine. An American production that was not well received – in particular by the McCanns, who refused to participate – but emblematic of a very current phenomenon: the true crime.
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