What is it about?
Ethan is a 17-year-old driver who works for a local gang run by Damien with an iron fist to support his little brother. Increasingly disgusted with this life, constantly on the razor’s edge, he finds a possible solution through spinning, a very intense local sport where he can put his piloting skills to good use. But a looming gang war threatens that hope.
“Spinners”, the first series from South Africa in the CANNESERIES competition
Spinners, the first South African series to be selected for the CANNESERIES festival, has impressed with preview screenings of its first two episodes. Co-produced by CANAL+ Africa, Showmax, Empreinte Digitale and Natives at Large, this production by Benjamin Hoffmann and Joachim Landau immerses us in the world of spinning, motoring and gangs in and around Cape Town, South Africa.
Somewhere between Fast and Furious and Gomorrah, Spinners follows the journey of Ethan, a 17-year-old who serves as a driver in his town for a dangerous gang controlled by Damien, a tough man who will stop at nothing. Left to take care of his little brother alone, Ethan is shocked when he discovers his boss’s methods of making money and securing their future.
But when he discovers spinning thanks to new acquaintances, Ethan sees a favorable solution in this mechanical sport, especially since he has a real talent for driving and skating. Except a gang war is raging and the local police want to end the bloodshed.
Between drama and thriller, Spinners portrays crime, corruption and gang warfare with high casualties from the very first episode, which lays a promising foundation and builds a story told in English, Afrikaans and Afrikaans. It will surely fascinate his audience.
If Spinners is primarily a gripping thriller, the series also offers everyday moments following a sometimes light and sometimes dramatic plot. coming of age His favorite hero is Ethan. The latter is played by Cantona James, a real revelation of the series, who gives a great performance.
The South African series is clearly worth watching because of the sequence of spinning, a highly popular mechanical sport in the country that developed in the gangster culture of the cities in the 1980s. Today, spinning is so democratized that the South African Motor Sports Federation has officially recognized the discipline, and Red Bull has been organizing a national competition every year since 2019.
Thanks to elaborate staging and the most careful realization with wrecked cars, Spinners offers crazy spins where practitioners spin and warm up the wheels and engines of their car while spinning it on themselves with a certain artistic sense, because only the figures and performed tricks count in this apparently fascinating discipline.
Spinners series will soon air only on CANAL+.
Source: Allocine
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