Act II!
After their excellent podcast "The incredible adventures of Edouard Baer and Jack Souvant", posted at the end of March on the France Inter website, the two acolytes, the first actor, the second reporter, such as "Don Quichotte and Sancho Pança" are leaving. on the… Spanish roads.
This time, Édouard Baer and Jack Souvant do not start looking for Benoît Poelvoorde who was lost in the Senegalese pampas during the first episodes.
They are leading the investigation for fakes… for the real Pedro Almodovar.
The Spanish filmmaker asked them to go in search of one of his precious scripts, that of his next film, forgotten in a taxi. They are currently recording this new radio soap opera, mixing as during their first trip, fiction, improvisation in the street and a more written scenario.
Direction therefore the south of the Iberian Peninsula "to find a text which appears as the symbol of European cultural resistance". "In an Andalusia where the shadows of spaghetti westerns lurk, today handed over to the sorcerer's apprentices of tarpaulin agriculture and where the tenacious presence of traditional religious congregations and Catholic Spain remain, the two acolytes set off on a treasure hunt. ”Explains France Inter, which will broadcast all of these“ incredible adventures ”on air all summer, on Sundays at noon, and as a podcast on the radio site at the end of June. With a promise: “A path of fantasy covered with a thousand encounters, a thousand dangers and pitfalls. "
Released at the end of March on the podcast platforms of public radio, the first part of this soap opera in six episodes of about forty minutes is a particularly poetic unidentified cultural object, mixing fiction and reality. "Do not count on me to tell what is true or not", then explained Édouard Baer, before adding: "I love this mixture of genres between reporting and fiction, this true lie ..." We hoped a long series of investigations just as nutty as this first masterful attempt. With Pedro Almodovar in the casting of this second salvo, the sequel goes beyond our expectations.