Has containment already exhausted your book supply? We have the series for you. After the comic, TV! Long live the "Culottées", these women who do only what they want. Winning the prestigious American Eisner Award for the best foreign book and already sold nearly 550,000 copies, Pénélope Bagieu's comic book arrives on France 5. Resolutely feminist, it draws the fate of thirty extraordinary women, illustrious or unknown, all of which shattered prejudice and changed the world in their own way. Ideal for children from 7 years old.
From Leymah Gbowee, Liberian social worker and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2011 to astronaut Mae Jemison, the first black woman to go into space, including inventor Hedy Lamarr, these short episodes (3 minutes 30) are all as successful as each other. All are very loyal to the drawings and values of Pénélope Bagieu and also to her humor. As in her comic, we feel all the tenderness and admiration that the designer has for these women.
Gynecologist during Antiquity, Apache warrior, shaman athlete or even explorer, all these women "thanks to their stubbornness, their strength of character, each wrote their own destiny," she confided to us last summer. Some are queens, some have won a Nobel Prize, others are anonymous. But each one of them, whatever the time, the social environment, the historical context, by daring to break down barriers, not only changed his life, but it contributed, on his scale, to move the lines ”.
Pénélope Bagieu followed very closely the passage of her comic strip on screen. At the helm, a female team with two producers and two young directors.
It was actress Cécile de France who lent her voice to the heroines and to all the secondary characters, including men. "It was really a great chance for me to discover all these women who made society move, who faced adversity and who risked their lives to move mentalities and invest with their whole body, everything their hearts, with so much audacity, courage, strength, character, ”enthuses the actress.
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Starting from 7 years old. Monday to Friday at 11:40 am on France 5. And on the France Télévisions replay site. 30 episodes of 3 minutes 30.
