Presidential 2022: the incredible live experience of Arte on the evening of the second round

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To allow French people who are fed up with traditional channels to follow the result of the second round of the presidential election, Arte has announced that it is setting up a completely new program.

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Thus on Sunday April 24, the Franco-German channel will broadcast on its website “Day of Glory”, a one-hour film in the form of a single sequence shot shot live.

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The goal ? The directors Jeanne Frenkel and Cosme Castro will stage four actors, Félix Moati, Julien Campani, Julia Faure and Kamel Abdessadok in a fiction-reality.

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Here is the synopsis: the first two will play two brothers whom everything opposes and who find themselves after many years in their native village of Lot-et-Garonne on the evening of the second round of the presidential election.

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As you will have understood, the project will be to bring the result of this long-awaited election live to viewers and actors, in order to have totally unexpected reactions.

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“The challenge is to have such precise timing that you arrive right in front of the television at that moment. It’s very repetitive, it’s not improvisation”, said co-director Jeanne Frenkel.

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She continued: “Even if there is something unforeseen, it will be part of the film. The thing that scares me the most is the weather.”

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This film, which can be classified in the universe of “metacinema”, is 70% written and will be 85% after the first round”, according to co-producer François Pécheux.

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“This long sequence shot of more than an hour on the country roads and on the village square will take us to discover the destiny of two brothers, a destiny that will change against the background of the election result”.

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One thing is certain: we can’t wait to see what it will give.

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One thing is certain: we can’t wait to see what it will give.