M6 launches this evening the new series “The man of our lives”, carried by Odile Vuillemin, Jonathan Zaccaï, Flore Bonaventura, Héléna Noguerra and Elodie Frégé. A thriller in the vein of “The Scammer of Tinder” which is devoured like a page-turner.
What is it about ?
Camille’s life changes when the man she loves disappears overnight after emptying his bank account. She decides to find him and discovers that he is seducing other women in order to defraud them too.
Camille will then do everything to open the eyes of these blindly in love victims, with the ultimate objective of standing up against the one who scammed them and obtaining justice. Together, will Camille, Oriane and Mathilde manage to bring him down?
Thursdays November 24 and December 1 at 9:10 p.m. on M6. 4 episodes seen out of 4.
Who is it with?
To embody the “arnacoeur” anti-hero of The Man of Our Lives, who takes on several identities including those of Guillaume, Amaury and Nathan, the production and M6 have set their sights on Jonathan Zaccaï, well known to French viewers who have in particular could see it in Infidèle and The Office of the legends.
Facing him, Camille, Oriane, Mathilde and Iris, the four women who fall into the clutches of his character, are embodied by Odile Vuillemin (Profiling, He is her), Flore Bonaventura (Grand Hotel), Héléna Noguerra (The Replacement) and Elodie Frégé, who has already demonstrated her talents as an actress in La Main du mal on TF1 or The Art of Running Away at the cinema.
A nice cast completed by Rani Bheemuck (Tomorrow belongs to us), Michel Bompoil (A man of honor), Jérémie Poppe (More beautiful life), Armelle Abibou (The wild state), Mark Grosy (Here everything begins) and the young Aaricia Lemaire in the role of Mathilde’s daughter, Agathe.
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Well worth a look ?
Already available in preview on the Salto platform since this summer, the mini-series The Man of Our Lives, created by Marie Guilmineau and Alice Van den Broek who won the Best Screenplay award at the last La Rochelle Festival, finally arrives tonight on M6.
This four-episode thriller certainly rides on the success of the Dirty John series, starring Eric Bana and Connie Britton, which, in its wake, has seen the birth of a good number of fictions and documentaries against a backdrop of fraud, influence, manipulation and abuse of weakness.
From Manipulations on France 2 to the Netflix phenomenon documentary L’Arnaqueur de Tinder which, earlier this year, returned to the incredible but true misdeeds of a fake millionaire who seduced many women via a dating application before stealing their money. .
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But despite a fashionable subject and an air of deja vu when reading the pitch, The Man of Our Lives manages to grab us thanks to a narration that constantly alternates between the point of view of the character of Jonathan Zaccaï, who seems convinced that he acts out of love (voice-over à la You in support), and that of Camille, ready to do anything to get revenge and to stop this outstanding manipulator.
Jonathan Zaccaï proves to be quite simply excellent in the role of the serial crook who gives his title to The man of our lives. Constantly managing to bring the right balance to his score as a seducer too perfect to be honest who, in the space of a second, manages to erase all the charm that characterizes him behind a dark and chilling gaze.
Result: although we hate Amaury and all the identities he takes on over time, and we can’t wait to see him pay for his crimes, we also understand how each of these women was able to let themselves be seduced by this a seemingly incredibly considerate and charming man. Without seeing the skillfully orchestrated trap that was gradually closing in on her.
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Surprising in the way it shows how far its antagonist is willing to go to achieve his ends, The Man of Our Lives is also very successful when it focuses on the victims, who will gradually unite in a surge of sorority which obviously recalls The Scammer of Tinder. Wounded women who, in contact with their leader Camille, will find the strength to fight for revenge and turn against the crook who destroyed their lives.
Jonathan Zaccaï finds in Odile Vuillemin and Flore Bonaventura (who here inherits the best role of his young career) sizeable adversaries. And we would have liked the characters of Héléna Noguerra and Elodie Frégé – she plays Iris, a singer who could also fall into the clutches of Amaury – to be further developed so that the two actresses can compete with this winning trio behind which unfortunately they tend to fade a little.
Despite this downside, and a last episode a bit too hasty in its resolution, The Man of Our Lives is nonetheless a very good thriller which can be devoured like a page-turner and which constitutes one of the very good surprises of this serial year 2022.