“Not easy to construct, this edition turns out to be eclectic and confirms a confident French creation,”
underlines Laurence Herszberg, general director of Séries Mania.
With the actors' and screenwriters' strikes, which have dried up American production, and the conflict in the Middle East, which is paralyzing Israeli fiction, the Lille festival, which opened this Friday and runs until March 22, had to fold. on other fishponds.
To discover
TV program this evening: our selection of the day
However, this 2024 vintage opens with quite a preview, that of the
Three-Body Problem.
Fiction marks the return of the creators of
Game of Thrones
.
David Benioff and D. B. Weiss did not take the easy route by adapting another serpentine literary saga for Netflix: Liu Cixin's SF trilogy.
The Chinese novelist depicts humanity under the threat of an extraterrestrial invasion.
The invaders are on their way and will arrive on the blue planet in four centuries.
What to do in the face of the inevitable?
Resist, collaborate or embrace life to the fullest and let subsequent generations face the crisis?
“David Benioff and D. B. Weiss have kept intact their ability to create a world series, which connects the past and the present, and bets on a new generation of actors.
With
The Three-Body Problem
, they extend their questioning of power, its mechanisms, its excesses
,” assures Laurence Herszberg.
Also read: The Three-Body Problem: Game of Thrones creators in search of redemption
Master class by Audrey Fleurot
At the head of
Hotel Cocaine,
which plunges into the Miami of the end of the seventies, where the star of
The Shield,
Michael Chiklis, shines, the creator of
Narcos
Chris Brancato, who remains in the powder, takes a reduced American contingent to Lille .
To compensate, Séries Mania
“
expanded its horizon
” and welcomes
“favorites
”
from Latvia
(Soviet Jeans)
and Taiwan
(Three Tears in Borneo).
In total, this week highlights 52 series from 31 countries
Several trends emerge from this 2024 selection: the need to find an escape from a merciless reality, the importance of family (
Apples Never Fall
, with Annette Bening and Sam Neill), the pursuit of desire and sexuality (
Mary & George ,
with Julianne Moore as the Machiavellian mother of the Duke of Buckingham;
So Long, Marianne,
which will delight romantics and fans of singer Leonard Cohen), the quest for mysticism
(House of Gods),
artificial intelligence and its threats.
Tricolor fiction allows itself all daring and all genres.
A political thriller inspired by the novel by Édouard Philippe and his accomplice Gilles Boyer (
In the Shadow,
with Melvil Poupaud and Swann Arlaud), the reconstruction, with English-speaking actors, of the match between the chess champion Garry Kasparov and the Deep Blue computer
(Rematch),
Anne of Austria's young years at court
(A Dangerous Friendship),
a workers' revolt à la
Kill Bill (Machine)
, riots in the suburbs (
Ourika
, series developed by rapper Booba ).
“Gone are the days when we deplored French production disconnected from reality and monolithic
,” says Laurence Herszberg.
The guest list illustrates its guideline: a popular event that encourages more cutting-edge discoveries.
Expected in the master class: Audrey Fleurot, who will present the new season of
HPI
, Clémentine Célarié, Laurent Lafitte, Camélia Jordana, the screenwriter (
The OA ) and president of the jury Zal Batmanglij and the Oscar-winning actress Patricia Arquette, who worked on the
Medium
series
, Severance
, and
Escape at Dannemora
.
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