She likes dancing in the rain, listening to jazz, her dog Linneo, the sound of the surf, short and flashy clothes, the city of Genoa and many other things.
Blanca is blind, expert in “holophony”, that is to say she hears what no one else can hear.
A gift which first opened the doors to the justice archives, then those of a police station as a consultant.
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Adapted from the best-seller by Patrizia Rinaldi, presented at the 2021 Venice Film Festival, season 1, followed in Italy by 5 million viewers on average, was a hit.
Blanca Ferrando (Maria Chiara Giannetta) took her first steps there under the orders of a bellowing and cantankerous commissioner (theater actor Enzo Paci) and a captain who is much too handsome to be honest (Giuseppe Zeno).
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Those who see and she who hears what she does not see
We also discovered the trajectory of the young woman - her dysfunctional family, her tragically missing sister, the trauma, the abandoned mother, the causes of blindness, the discovery and development of her extraordinary gift... -, her strong character and her affirmed desire to find a place in an environment and a society still firmly attached to its archaisms.
In the wake of the previous one, season 2 takes up the codes put in place by the director: the bright colors in opposition to the black in which the heroine evolves, the use of split screen type devices, the mixture of musical genres (rap, baroque music...), the vigorous filming, Genoa as a setting or even the scenes experienced from the double point of view of those who see and those who hear what she does not see.
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An assumed style, to which are added remarks and a rather spicy humor.
Without forgetting the actress chosen for the role.
Like Sara Mortensen who, for
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, works tirelessly on her character suffering from autism, Maria Chiara Giannetta builds her Blanca around the handicap which she agrees requires developing a very particular energy to be credible.
The result is a series with a dramatic comedy feel rather than a detective one.
A colorful fresco which, without constituting a masterpiece – it does not seek to be one – says quite a few things about Italy today, the place of women, management disability, relationships with men, relationships with oneself.
In any case, we don't get bored.