{ "id": "eprsqc3jv5", "slug": "la-faille", "title": "La Faille", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series", 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"https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.other.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.other.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series", "label": "Series and fictional screen worlds", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.other.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series" }, { "id": "geo.other.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv", "label": "Scripted television and comedy series", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.other.t2001.culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv" } ] } ], "excerpt": "La Faille (The Wall) is a Quebec French-language crime thriller TV series by Frédéric Ouellet, produced by Pixcom for Club illico from 2019, starring Isabel Richer as detective Céline Trudeau across three seasons and 25 episodes.", "snippet": "La Faille (The Wall) is a Quebec French-language crime thriller TV series by Frédéric Ouellet, produced by Pixcom for Club illico from 2019, starring Isabel Richer as detective Céline Trudeau across three seasons and 25 episodes.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_scripted_tv.drama-prestige-series.crime-and-thriller-series.police-and-detective-procedurals", "markdown": "# La Faille\n\n**La Faille** (international title *The Wall*) is a [Quebec French](https://www.edgepedia.org/quebec-french)-language crime thriller television series created and written by Frédéric Ouellet, produced by Pixcom in collaboration with Québecor Contenu, and first released on the Club illico streaming platform on December 12, 2019.[1](https://hollywoodpq.com/la-faille-lintrigue-et-la-distribution-de-la-2e-saison-devoilee/) It follows sergente-détective Céline Trudeau, played by Isabel Richer, through three murder investigations, each set in a different Quebec location, and ran for 25 episodes across three seasons between 2019 and 2024.[2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Format | French-language police thriller, 25 episodes of about 45 to 60 minutes across 3 seasons[2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille) • [3](https://stephaniedeflandre.com/portfolio-items/la-faille/?portfolioCats=128%2C129) |\n| Run | First released December 12, 2019 on Club illico; broadcast October 6, 2020 to March 14, 2024 on TVA and Club Illico[1](https://hollywoodpq.com/la-faille-lintrigue-et-la-distribution-de-la-2e-saison-devoilee/) • [2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille) |\n| Lead cast | Isabel Richer (Céline Trudeau), Alexandre Landry (Alexandre Théberge), Maripier Morin (Sophie Taylor)[2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille) |\n| Season 1 setting | Fermont, a mining town on the Labrador border, and its windbreak structure \"le Mur\"[4](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D21760) |\n| Directors | Patrice Sauvé (seasons 1 and 2), Daniel Roby (season 3)[4](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D21760) • [5](https://www.videotron.com/divertissement/illico-plus/la-faille) |\n| Reception | Record first-weekend viewership on Vidéotron's VOD platform in 2019; IMDb rating 6.9/10 from about 1,100 users[6](https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/12/18/club-illico-la-faille-bat-un-record-de-visionnements) • [7](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt11577386/) |\n| International title | Distributed in France as *The Wall*[8](https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie%3D26403.html) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise and season 1\n\nSeason 1, produced in 2019 and directed by Patrice Sauvé, takes place in the depths of the Quebec winter in Fermont, a small mining town on the border of Labrador. The sergente-détective Céline Trudeau is assigned the investigation of a strange murder: the body of Justine Fournier, a nude dancer, is found in a ventilation duct of \"le Mur\", the immense residential and commercial structure that shelters the town's inhabitants from the glacial Arctic wind.[4](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D21760) The victim's face is covered by a Chinese mask, and the investigation reveals that everyone in the small community seems connected to the victim or to her murder.[8](https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie%3D26403.html)\n\nThe tension rises when the crime appears linked to the death of a child three years earlier, a death that had been believed accidental.[4](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D21760) Céline works with a young local police officer, Alex Théberge (Alexandre Landry), to whom she becomes attached, and makes an unexpected encounter with her own daughter Sophie (Maripier Morin), who has been estranged from her for four years after a painful conflict and had moved to Fermont to escape her mother for good.[2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille)\n\nThe eight-episode season was shot in the biting cold of Fermont on the Côte-Nord.[6](https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/12/18/club-illico-la-faille-bat-un-record-de-visionnements) Released on December 12, 2019, it became within a week the series with the most first-weekend viewings ever recorded on Vidéotron's video-on-demand platform, and Quebecor reported one million viewings in under seven days.[1](https://hollywoodpq.com/la-faille-lintrigue-et-la-distribution-de-la-2e-saison-devoilee/) • [9](https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/accessibility/issues/206979/articles/6037e3423c822327e9b0f9ce/reader) At the Gala Artis 2021, Marc Messier won the award for male role in seasonal drama series for playing Jules Ricard.[2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille)\n\n### Season 2\n\nSeason 2, again directed by Patrice Sauvé and produced in 2021, moves the investigation to [Quebec City](https://www.edgepedia.org/quebec-city). The murder of a former engineer, found cemented into a bathtub at the [Château Frontenac](https://www.edgepedia.org/chateau-frontenac), launches Céline on a new inquiry: the victim was responsible for the collapse of a viaduct that killed 12 people, and the crime occurs at the opening of a major civil engineering congress where companies are fiercely competing for the enormous contract to build the \"3e lien\" between Quebec and its south shore.[5](https://www.videotron.com/divertissement/illico-plus/la-faille) The season comprises nine episodes, written by Frédéric Ouellet in collaboration with Guillaume Vigneault, and filming began in early 2020 before being interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic; production resumed with the winter shoot the producers considered the series' signature.[1](https://hollywoodpq.com/la-faille-lintrigue-et-la-distribution-de-la-2e-saison-devoilee/) • [10](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/03/20/une-2e-saison-toujours-prevue) Some scenes were shot in the [Laurentides](https://www.edgepedia.org/laurentides) region, with the town of Oka hosting the production's set.[11](https://www.journallenord.com/culture/films-laurentides-deux-tournages-de-series-quebecoises-dans-la-region/)\n\n### Season 3\n\nSeason 3, produced in 2022 and directed by Daniel Roby, returns the setting to a small community. Céline Trudeau goes back to the village where she spent her youth and is forced to confront the event that traumatized her at age 16: the sordid murder of Véronique Jolicœur, her cousin and best friend, which occurred 30 years earlier and whose perpetrator has never been identified.[12](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D24278) She launches the investigation with Alex on the trail of the still-unidentified assassin.[5](https://www.videotron.com/divertissement/illico-plus/la-faille) The eight episodes were made available on Club Illico on November 9, 2022, and the season was broadcast on television each Thursday at 21:00 from January 25 to March 14, 2024.[13](https://thetvdb.com/series/la-faille/seasons/official/3) • [2](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille)\n\n## Broadcast and the 2020 removal\n\nAfter its Club illico debut, the series moved to conventional television: TVA added *La faille* to its fall 2020 schedule, less than a year after the streaming launch.[14](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/08/13/la-faille-a-tva-cet-automne) In July 2020, following sexual harassment and physical assault allegations made by singer Safia Nolin against Maripier Morin, Vidéotron temporarily removed the series from Club illico; after protests from the television community, which argued that the removal penalized the entire cast and crew, Vidéotron quietly reinstated it.[14](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/08/13/la-faille-a-tva-cet-automne) Morin retained her role in the second season.[15](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/12/09/maripier-morin-conserve-son-role-dans-la-faille)\n\n## Reception and international distribution\n\nCritics received the first season positively, and Quebecor described it as one of the flagship original productions of Club illico in 2019.[6](https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/12/18/club-illico-la-faille-bat-un-record-de-visionnements) • [9](https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/accessibility/issues/206979/articles/6037e3423c822327e9b0f9ce/reader) In France, where the series airs under the title *The Wall*, AlloCiné users gave it 3.1 out of 5 from 60 ratings, and reviewers placed it in the tradition of small-community murder dramas such as *Broadchurch* and *The Killing*, noting its glacial, snowbound setting as a distinguishing feature.[8](https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie%3D26403.html) • [16](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18689595.html) On IMDb the series holds a rating of 6.9/10 from about 1,100 users.[7](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt11577386/)\n\n## Other works titled La Faille\n\nThe title has also been used for several unrelated works. *La Faille* is the tenth novel in Franck Thilliez's Franck Sharko thriller series, first published on May 4, 2023, in which the commandant Sharko investigates outside the law while suspended pending an IGPN review.[17](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196649586-la-faille) *La faille* is the French title of a short story collection by the American writer Mary Gaitskill, a volume of nine stories examining sexual tension and social domination.[18](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080093-la-faille) *La Faille* is also the French title of the 2007 American legal thriller film *Fracture*, which holds a Metascore of 68 and an IMDb rating of 7.2/10.[19](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0488120/criticreviews/) • [20](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0488120/ratings/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [La faille: L'intrigue et la distribution de la 2e saison dévoilées! – Hollywoodpq](https://hollywoodpq.com/la-faille-lintrigue-et-la-distribution-de-la-2e-saison-devoilee/)\n2. [La faille – Série, Qui Joue Qui?](https://quijouequi.com/emissions/la-faille)\n3. [La Faille – Stephanie Deflandre portfolio](https://stephaniedeflandre.com/portfolio-items/la-faille/?portfolioCats=128%2C129)\n4. [La faille (saison 1) – Qui fait Quoi](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D21760)\n5. [La faille – Série, Vidéotron illico+](https://www.videotron.com/divertissement/illico-plus/la-faille)\n6. [Club illico: «La Faille» bat un record de visionnements – Le Journal de Montréal](https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2019/12/18/club-illico-la-faille-bat-un-record-de-visionnements)\n7. [La faille (2019) – IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt11577386/)\n8. [The Wall – Série TV 2019, AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/series/ficheserie_gen_cserie%3D26403.html)\n9. [Club illico 2019 productions report, Mediawire](https://reader.mediawiremobile.com/accessibility/issues/206979/articles/6037e3423c822327e9b0f9ce/reader)\n10. [Une 2e saison toujours prévue – Le Journal de Québec](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/03/20/une-2e-saison-toujours-prevue)\n11. [Films Laurentides : Deux tournages de séries québécoises dans la région – Journal Le Nord](https://www.journallenord.com/culture/films-laurentides-deux-tournages-de-series-quebecoises-dans-la-region/)\n12. [La faille (saison 3) – Qui fait Quoi](https://guidedev.qfq.com/prod%3D24278)\n13. [La faille – Season 3, TheTVDB](https://thetvdb.com/series/la-faille/seasons/official/3)\n14. [«La faille» à TVA cet automne – Le Journal de Québec](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/08/13/la-faille-a-tva-cet-automne)\n15. [Maripier Morin conserve son rôle dans La faille – Le Journal de Québec](https://www.journaldequebec.com/2020/12/09/maripier-morin-conserve-son-role-dans-la-faille)\n16. [The Wall sur 13ème Rue – AlloCiné](https://www.allocine.fr/article/fichearticle_gen_carticle%3D18689595.html)\n17. [La Faille by Franck Thilliez – Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196649586-la-faille)\n18. [La faille by Mary Gaitskill – Goodreads](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53080093-la-faille)\n19. [La Faille (2007) – Avis Metacritic, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0488120/criticreviews/)\n20. 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