To enter the world of
Little Birds
is to enter a waking dream, to find a hidden memory ”,
promises its star, Juno Temple.
Jazz, song of fountains and birds, the serial adaptation, on Starzplay, of the erotic news of Anaïs Nin is in any case a beautiful awakening of the senses.
Confusing, incongruous, his images bathe in an unreal, outdated atmosphere without ever plunging into vulgarity or pornography.
For the purposes of the plot, the creator, the Qatari-American artist Sophia Al-Maria, articulates the texts of Nin around the Tangier of the 1950s. Lucy Savage (Juno Temple), a rich American debutante arrives there.
Her father, an arms manufacturer, in fact married her to a British aristocrat stationed in the Moroccan city.
A porcelain doll consumed with desire, Lucy is unaware that her husband prefers men.
For the New Yorker brought up in a bourgeois and Protestant prudishness, brothels, expatriates, hedonistic artists are a revelation starting with Cherifa Lamour, the domineering prostitute of Tangier, often in the arms of French officers and perfectly aware of her femininity and of the effect it has on men.
Opposite classes, Lucy and Cherifa dream of freeing themselves from their straitjacket of good wife and fallen woman.
"Inner fire"
“I had read Nin when I was a teenager, when people wonder a lot about their sexuality. Eroticism is an emotion, a timeless cry ”,
confides Juno Temple, who was offered a first edition on the set.
“The series shows heroines who run after pleasure without succeeding in reaching it, but remain modest.
I like the idea that every woman discovers her inner fire.
Little Birds will
elicit very different reactions in all of us just by showing a shoulder, a bead of sweat sliding down the skin.
For once, it is the men who strip themselves more than us ”
, greets the actress.
To the temptations of the flesh, this series directed by Stacie Passon adds the unexpected thrills of film noir.
In this Morocco on the eve of independence, English and Americans are plotting.
French soldiers, led by Jean-Marc Barr, of the
Big Blue
, cherish the inclinations of putsch at the twilight of colonialism.
From games of seduction to games of power, the border is thin.
