Jim Sheridan’s Sophie Toscan du Plantier film: How case against Ian Bailey unravels and some fictional elements veer towards implausible

Family of Sophie Toscan du Plantier have criticised Jim Sheridan over new film Re-Creation

Wed 11 Jun 2025 at 02:30

The 1996 murder of French filmmaker Sophie Toscan du Plantier at her holiday home in west Cork remains one of Ireland’s most haunting and controversial unsolved crimes. Nearly 30 years on, the case continues to cast a long shadow.

British journalist Ian Bailey – long regarded as the prime suspect by Irish authorities – was never tried in Ireland, though he was convicted in absentia by a French court.