The tears of series fans who discovered
One Day
on Netflix will have barely had time to dry before they can take out their handkerchiefs in front of the equally London and delicate
You & Me
on Arte.
There too the story of a meeting that changes everything and the bitterness of mourning.
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Running out of breath behind a bus, Ben and Jess fall in love with each other.
Shortly after came the move and even a twin pregnancy.
While Jess and her babies barely survive a difficult birth, the young woman is killed in the hospital parking lot, a car hitting the vehicle that was supposed to bring the little family home.
Stunned, Ben (Harry Lawtey,
Industry
) forgets himself in the grief and the education of his children.
All joy of life and all desire for social interaction abandon him until the day the journalist meets in an interview a young actress, Emma (Jessica Barden,
The End of the F***ing World
).
She also tries to overcome her suffering after the loss of a loved one who left too soon.
By unwinding the thread of memories together, Ben and Emma bring their loved ones back to life.
They form a bond that goes beyond them and takes them out of their affective and emotional anesthesia.
From cafes to midnight swims in public swimming pools, they fan the flame of desire despite themselves.
But can we trust feelings that rise from the ashes?
Especially since the two protagonists jealously compartmentalize their confidences and hide behind a few things left unsaid.
Faith in others
Throughout their delicate exchanges, a dull and quiet force emerges which carries away everything in its path.
In the heart of an English capital bathed in the shimmering colors of summer, the series multiplies the flashbacks and emphasizes these moments of "déjà vu", with the living, who resurrect a precious memory with the deceased.
A Pandora's box of joy and sorrow, which, when opened, threatens to erase the progress wrested from sadness and nostalgia.
Before getting better, there will be relapses, cowardice, blindness.
And a lot of poetry to counterbalance the pathos lurking in ambush.
It is only little by little that the viewer will understand the nature of the tragedies that shaped Ben and Emma.
Actor seen in the medical soap
Casualty
and now screenwriter, Jamie Davis had the idea for
You & Me
during a great period of happiness:
“What is the worst thing that can happen and pierce this bubble?
When the worst happens, how can we give ourselves a second chance and love again?
» “
This series is a love story between a boy and a girl, between a parent and a child, between brothers and sisters, between friends
,” he professes.
“
What is the price of love?
Why must it necessarily cost us
?
»
A plea for resilience and faith in others, this fiction reminds us that life and chance have their own tempo.
Clearly, the British have a particular talent, perhaps inherited from Jane Austen, for depicting the banality and simplicity of existence.
Little things in which a thousand moments of change and possibility are nestled.