The editorial staff of Allociné shares with you its first favorites of the festival, the 12th edition of which begins in Lille. On the program: the return of a gifted investigator, four budding comedians trying to break through, a doctor in crisis…
Six months after its last edition, the Series Mania Festival returns to Lille and returns to its usual slot, in March, to celebrate the art of series. It’s Netflix Comedy Funnya new project by the creator of Dix Pour Cent, Fanny Herrero, which opened the festivities at the opening ceremony, this Friday, March 18.
On stage, the general director of the festival, Laurence Herszberg, recalled the strong themes of this eminently political edition, recalling that series are constantly examining the world. Invited to chair the jury of the international competition, the Ukrainian producer Julia Sinkevych paid tribute to the courage and cultural strength of his country. A highlight of the evening.
Present on site, the team ofAlloCine makes you discover, every day, its best discoveries of the selection.
Funny (Opening Series)
Fanny Herrero proves it: there is nothing more difficult than being funny. Behind this art of the good word and the punchline that hits the mark, fiction highlights these paths strewn with pitfalls between precariousness, slump and questioning. Finely written, the series also shines with the interpretation of its four star actors – Mariama Gueye, Elsa Guedj, Younès Boucif and Jean Siuen. Ideal choice to start the 12th edition of Series Mania, Funny should sign a new success for Fanny Herrero.
Funny is available now on Netflix.
HPI – season 2 (Special Screenings)
Always encamped by a Audrey Fleurot who gives it their all in front of a cast that is not to be outdone (Mehdi Nebbou, Bruno Sanches, Marie Denardaud, Berangere McNeese), Morgane faces a newcomer, played by the impeccable Clotilde Hesme (Nona and her daughters), a tough IGPN inspector who came to put her nose into the unorthodox methods of the gifted mother.
Both rhythmic and light, this new season pushes the cursors of comedy a little more and assumes the wacky side of the investigations activated by Morgane and Karadec. We do not sulk our pleasure in front of their attached duo, in this sparkling season 2 which has fun with the codes of the detective genre.
HPI season 2, soon on TF1.
Tender flesh (French competition)
Long hair, loose clothes, the heroine appears rather shy at first sight, which does not prevent her from meeting a group of friends. Behind her discreet smile, Sasha must face her uncertainties. At birth, she was born into an intersex body. Despite her parents’ lies, the teenager will lead an inner struggle to find and affirm her identity.
We fell in love with Flesh tender which, thanks to its subject and the authenticity of its casting, should seduce an audience in search of rare stories. The representation of intersex, in the cinema as on television, is almost nil. We can therefore only salute Yaël Langmann’s gesture of getting involved in such a subject with a learning story that recalls, at times, the work of Gus Van Sant. In her first role, Angèle Metzger is a revelation.
Tender flesh, soon on France.tv Slash.
This Is Going To Hurt (Special Screenings)
Taken from the memoirs of British doctor Adam Kay, which he adapted himself for the BBC Two channel, This Is Going To Hurt is a medical chronicle strong in emotions carried by British actor Ben Whishaw (London Spy, Dying can wait) who does not hesitate to wet his coat for this role of exhausted doctor, denouncing a public health system in crisis. A not-so-distant cousin to the brilliant Canal+ series Hippocrates, also drawn from the true journey of a doctor turned screenwriter, Thomas Lilti.
This Is Going to HurtMarch 31 on Canal+.