Adapted from the eponymous bestseller by Spanish novelist Dolores Redondo,
All That I'll Give You
, a saga mixed with police investigation relates the fall of a family of wealthy landowners from the south of France, the Favre de Castelmore.
The Marquise, a woman with a dry heart, witnesses, impassively, the decimation of her clan.
First her husband, then her children.
The youngest died of an overdose six years ago.
Aymeric, the eldest, dies in a car accident at the opening of the first of six episodes.
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Joffrey, the youngest, now sole heir to the title and domain, is not up to the task.
Worse, he believes he is cursed.
This is without taking into account the need to understand from Manuel, Aymeric's husband, and the stubbornness of a young retiree from the gendarmerie, convinced that the Favres are not victims of fate, but of a fatal plot. .
Together, they unearth a past tainted by mistreatment and secrets buried beneath conventions.
Parental neglect
Of the Basque novelist's four novels, three have already been brought to the screen.
This shows the enthusiasm that his work arouses among producers.
“
I am told that my writing is extremely visual and that my characters, through their ability to confront evil, to feel it breathe, to observe it closely, to experience it, allow us to go far into the study of human nature ,
”
she comments.
All this I will give to you
(in Spanish,
Todo esto te daré
), whose plot was transposed to France for the purposes of the adaptation, is a perfect illustration of this.
Through the family story and the trajectories of each of the heroes, the viewer, initially startled by the superior airs of a provincial aristocracy screwed to its particle and its class privileges, gradually discovers a gallery of characters including dilapidation competes with childhood trauma.
These, moreover, are not so much due to their belonging as to centuries of injunction to silence and parental neglect.
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The analysis of intra-family relationships is specific to the family saga, a serial genre with high potential, as evidenced by the recent
Succession
,
Yellowstone
,
Grace
or
The Fall of the House of Usher
.
All this I will give you
draws on the same threads - jealousy, anger, deficiencies, betrayal, frustration, relationship with father, mother... - to which is added here the pair formed by the widower (David Kammenos) , a writer lacking inspiration, and the cantankerous policeman (Bruno Solo), mistreated by his wife without us yet knowing why.
Homosexuality seen as normal
Their awkward collaboration, from the first minutes, advances the plot.
Even though they are presented as secondary, because they are foreign to the family, their need to understand not only propels them to the forefront of history, but restores humanity to all the others, the living and the dead.
At the very least, to those who deserve it.
“I was immediately captivated by the writing, the drawing, the interactions between the characters and by the love story that was played out, beyond death, between Aymeric and Manuel
,” notes David Kammenos. , almost on all levels.
The union of these two men is all the more touching as it was sealed away from the clan and kept secret for ten years.
We gradually understand why so much mystery around a love which otherwise is not the crux of the matter here.
“To my knowledge, this is the first time that a fiction depicts homosexuality through the romantic relationship and not the sum of the battles fought.
Homosexuality becomes normal.
I think it’s great
,” the actor also said.
The character of Aymeric, his absolute despair, his quest for truth and his duet with Bruno Solo gives this saga from summer to winter a depth and finesse of which the first scenes do not bode well.
We must therefore not be afraid to get to know the Favre de Castelmore and their associates in more detail.