un billionaire patriarch, emerged from the gutter, as venomous as he is seductive. A martyred eldest son, an only favorite daughter and an uncontrollable youngest child. Kendall, Shiv and Roman are all launched into a dead-end quest for recognition from a tyrannical and idolized father, Logan Roy, a media mogul, who, after a stroke, must choose the heir who will take over the reins. of his empire. The one who will finally succeed in “killing” Dad.
Series Succession (HBO), which is particularly inspired by the Murdoch dynasty, is both a Shakespearean tragedy embroidering in four seasons the shroud of frenzied capitalism and a fierce critique of media power, where each “commercial negotiation takes the form of rape and devouring”wrote Slate in May. This story of an Oedipal battle led by Kendall Roy, fragile and ambitious heir, once again won the day at the Golden Globes ceremony, Sunday January 7: nine nominations and three awards.
If the secondary issue of the final season was to know who would survive this enjoyable game of massacre to finally recover Mickey’s tail (power and money, therefore), the success of Succession also lies in the public’s identification – although not very obvious – with these characters as horrible as they are endearing, engaged in a merciless fratricidal struggle, where love and hatred, complicity and betrayal alternate from one episode to the next. ‘other, leaving the viewer bloodless and bruised. Succession above all tells of the impossible transmission, the crushing weight of the father, as much admired as feared, and the difficulty of finding one’s place among siblings.
“It’s sinister, it’s gloomy, it’s sad. » These words used by Anthony Delon on BFM-TV on January 5 could thus summarize the epilogue of the Roy saga, where each child ultimately finds himself left behind. But this is another tragedy, a very real one this time. Even if, in the Delon family, fiction and life have always been intertwined.
The greatest icon of French cinema, 88 years old, sees his three children tearing each other apart in public, a Hallyday-style conflict that he said he wanted to avoid at all costs. It would not be a question here of the inheritance (everything was settled in advance, affirms Anthony Delon), but of the end of the life of the star, survivor of a glorious but bygone era, weakened and cloistered for several years in his Domaine de Douchy (Loiret). The eldest son and his half-brother want their father to end his days there, the youngest wants him to be treated in Switzerland, where she lives. Anthony assures that it is motivated by inheritance tax reasons, because their father would then be considered a Swiss citizen, which his half-sister, Anouchka, denied: “I’m not a wallet girl”she responded to the TF1 news on January 7.
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