Purple, green and red.
It is with this palette that
Séries Mania
inaugurated its new edition this Friday evening.
Purple, like the carpet on which the stars paraded.
From the cast of
Plus belle la vie
to Camélia Jordana via Hippolyte Girardot, Ève Gilles, Miss France 2024 and Rachida Dati.
The Minister of Culture confided that it was
“her first time at Séries Mania”.
A fan of legal series, the tenant of rue de Valois, full of verve, suggested that the twists and turns of the cult sagas
House Of Cards
and
Baron Noir
“were nothing compared to what was happening in real political life” .
Adding that if she could, she
would “provide the writers with even more astonishing twists and turns”
.
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Green, like the opening show which paid homage to the theme of this edition “behind the scenes”.
A green screen (special effects’ best friend) had been installed on the Nouveau Siècle stage.
Two dancers took their place under the care of two colleagues dressed in green jumpsuits from head to toe.
A screen above projected scenes from
Game Of Thrones
(an inevitable ritual),
Foundation
and the
Bazar de la Charité
in which the dancing duo moved while the two invisible henchmen supported them in their movements.
Ultimate sensation of levitation... A strange spectacle, even if not terribly penetrating.
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An “unpredictable” future
Red, like the outfit of the mistress of ceremonies, Daphné Burki, who superimposed a pleated, slit tunic over red pants.
The France Télévisions host delighted, as usual, the audience with her witty words.
President of the Hauts de France region, Xavier Bertrand had the right to his blow by being designated “best figure in the presidential election”.
“Series Mania starts like
Mad Men
and ends
like
The Walking Dead.
Remember that 'happy hour' starts here at 3 p.m.
,” she continued, alluding to the increasingly depressed faces of festival-goers every day.
The “demographic rearmament” advocated by the government also had its merits.
“Because of the series, we make love less.
Thank you Netflix for existing, otherwise I’ll be on my sixth kid!”
Seriousness was required when Daphné Burki spoke of Judith Godrèche's fight against sexist and sexual violence on the sets:
“To all the women who speak out, we believe you”
.
Joined on stage by the director of Séries Mania Laurence Herszberg, sober in her white jacket, and the members of the jury of the international competition, chaired by Zal Batmanglij.
Enthusiastic but more serious, the American screenwriter of
The OA
and
Murder at the End of the World
brought the temperature down a notch by prophesying that
“for the first time in the history of humanity, the future had become completely unpredictable cause of artificial intelligence
.
During this week of viewing, he will be assisted by the German actor Malick Bauer, Bérénice Bejo who caused a sensation in her silver jumpsuit, the director Charlotte Brändström and the rapper Sofiane Zermani, alias Fianso.
Stage fright
Red was also the color chosen by Jess Hong who carries the opening series
The 3-Body Problem
,
a new series from the creators of
Game Of Thrones
.
She was in Lille like her partner John Bradley, a veteran of the cult HBO saga.
The two actors, who play friends from Oxford, physics aces confronted with an extraterrestrial threat, expressed a certain level of nervousness.
“We have been working on this adaptation of the novels by Chinese writer Liu Cixin for more than two and a half years
,” recalled John Bradley.
He knows only too well what it's like to disappoint fans of a cult literary work.
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But if we are to believe the murmurs of approval and surprise from the audience in the room during the screening of the first two episodes, scheduled for Netflix on March 21, the omens are rather favorable!
There are now 52 series, from 21 territories, available to festival-goers and audiovisual professionals for a week.