After Piste noire or L’Abime, broadcast every Wednesday with Sarah Mortensen and Gil Alma in the main roles, France 2 continues the momentum and offers tonight a new thriller series, L’île burgnière, which promises to captivate viewers.
Created by Michel Bouss, the writer to whom we owe the bestsellers Le Temps est Assassin et Nothing stops youAnd whoever signs their first original here, L’île burgnière takes us to Penhique, a small island off the coast of Brittany.
An island without history until the day twenty armed activists arrive and hold all the inhabitants in the village school. Alpha (Lannick Gothrie), their leader, has everything planned except that the shuttle connecting Penhick to the mainland eludes them, allowing its five passengers to hide on the island.
While all the inmates are wondering who these activists are and what their motivations are, Alex (Pierre Perrier), Chris (Deborah Francois), Mado (Anouk Greenberg), Kelly (Jane Cara) and Dorian (Diego Murgia) return to Penhic. In the worst of times, he will do anything to find a way out and save the islanders. At the risk of your own life?
A series shot between Brittany and the Paris region
A unique setting for the six episodes that make up L’île burgnière, Penhique is a fictional island specially imagined for the needs of this fiction by Michel Buss and his co-writer Christian Cleres.
Directed by Elsa Bennet and Hippolyte Dard, the mini-series was filmed between 22 September and 23 December 2021, mainly in Brittany and specifically in Finistère.
According to the website Brittany CinemaCinétévé and France 2 teams set up their cameras in Locronan for sequences featuring a church square, town hall and school, in Moëlan-sur-mer and Clohars-Carnoët, including beaches, a cemetery or a port. It was used to bring Penhick to life, but also Roscanwell, where the first episode’s cave scene was filmed.
Anouk Greenberg, Jane Cara and Pierre Perrier in the new France 2 series.
Prisoners’ Island was also filmed in Morbihan, Lokmariaker and Languidic, who lent their homes to the series. And more surprisingly, in the Paris region.
When asked about the sequences shot in Ile-de-France, Pierre Perrier told us in an interview: “We had an issue with the school that we lost. And it seems to me that the production ‘cheated’ and shot scenes in the Paris area to compensate for the series that we no longer had access to.”.
Much of the series is in any case well and truly filmed in Brittany, in a natural environment that offers a real atmosphere and a very beautiful image of L’île burgnière, which shows the wonderful success of France from the first episodes. 2, which manages to bring us into the background of radical environmental activism in its history.
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