The release of the trailer on Tuesday was a sign.
Cédric Klapisch's series for Amazon Prime,
Greek Salad
,
the eagerly awaited follow-up to his trilogy of films begun with
The Spanish Inn,
will open the Series Mania 2023 festival with a
bang
.
an unknown page of the Second World War: the organization in 1940 from Marseille of the exfiltration of 2,000 Jews and opponents of Nazism.
This opening series sums up the program of the Lille event, which begins on March 17 and ends the following Friday, the 24th. Most of the most ambitious and titanic hexagonal fictions of the moment will have their premiere in the capital of Les Hauts -of France.
Fantastic, satire, family tragedy, wacky thriller... All tastes and genres will be in nature.
Wine and initials BB
In international competition,
De Grace,
the family saga of Arte about a family of dockers confronted with drug trafficking with Olivier Gourmet as the cursed patriarch, and
The drops of god
.
The adaptation of the famous manga on the world of wine, shot between France and Japan, sees France Télévisions join forces with Hulu Japan and Apple TV+, which has the first broadcast window.
Out of competition will come the fantasy thriller
The Swarm.
In this co-production with Germany, sea creatures rebel against man.
In the French competition section, France Télévisions will unveil its long-awaited biopic dedicated to Brigitte Bardot.
Imagined by Caesarized screenwriter Danièle Thompson and her son Christopher, who claim
The Crown as a model,
Bardot
traces the young woman's beginnings in the 7th art industry and the birth of the media frenzy surrounding her person.
The public group will also show feminist essayist Iris Brey's daring
Split
about a stuntwoman who falls in love with her star and questions her heterosexuality.
TF1 is betting on
Les Randonneuses
, the new series by Fanny Riedberger (
Lycée Toulouse-Lautrec
) in which Alix Poisson, Tiphaine Daviot, Camille Chamoux camp cancer patients celebrating their remission in the mountains.
The very serious Arte takes two comedies out of its pocket:
Polar Dark
with Jean-Paul Rouve and its political satire
Under Control
with Léa Drucker and Laurent Stocker.
Iranian and Greek series
In international competition
De Grace
and
The Drops of God
will have tough competition.
On the American side, the selection committee chose
Power,
with Toni Collette, a portrait of a world where only girls develop superpowers, reversing the balance of power between men and women.
Ray dystopia, it will also be necessary to take into account the Norwegian production
The Fortress
which imagines a future where the country lives in autarky behind a wall and carries out the sorting of the Western refugees.
Milky Way
is about a teenage pregnancy in the conservative climate of the snow-capped mountains of Greece.
The Israeli series
Bodies at work
finely deals with the relationship of surrogate mothers with commissioning couples.
Co-written by a joint Israeli-Palestinian team, including the writers of
No Man's Land
and the director of
Shtisel
,
Red Skies
will evoke the second Intifada and take you to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The first Iranian series selected in International Competition,
The Actor
tells the improbable adventures of two young unemployed actors.
Produced by Pedro Almodovar,
Mentiras Pasajeras
is an elegant and cheerful comedy about appearances, the obsession with beauty and success leading to the temptation to lie.
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu of Emily in Paris in majesty
These eight titles will be decided by a jury chaired by the creator of
Westworld
, Lisa Joy.
There will sit the actresses Lou Doillon and Emmanuelle Béart, the scriptwriter of
Doctor Who
and
Broadchurch
Chris Chibnall.
Series Mania will roll out the red carpet to the favorite actors of French spectators.
Audrey Fleurot
will present the first unreleased episodes of season 3 of
HPI
.
The emblematic interpreter of
Thierry La Fronde
Jean-Claude Drouot
and the comedian
Baptiste Lecaplain,
the star and patroness of
Emily in Paris
Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu
also announced.
Like the ruthless patriarch and Succession
news mogul
Brian Cox.
The British actor had already come to the festival to present the first season of the iconic HBO series.
In all, to establish this gargantuan selection, the team of artistic director Laurence Herszberg viewed more than 396 series received from 63 countries.
And Laurence Herszberg to analyze:
“We selected 54 of 24 different nationalities.
Some come from unusual territories such as Greece, Pakistan, Benin, Uruguay or Iran.
The rise of these serial forms based on other narrative and aesthetic codes does not go without questioning our very Western way of telling and looking at stories.
“The observation of a certain standardization of storytellings linked to the weight of the platforms, to an exacerbated competition and to the tensions of the market is essential. In this context, the diversification of stories and their visibility appear all the more important, and in this respect, a festival like ours as well as the press have a key role to play",
underlines the one who notices a surge of the 80s and 90, the prevalence of major societal debates and increasingly assertive and powerful female characters.
A great program in perspective.