Tonight on TV: An old-school film reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Tonight on TV: An old-school film reminiscent of Agatha Christie and Alfred Hitchcock

Having read the Tintin albums he had already read during several important periods of his life, Nicolas Pariser is more interested in the albums dating from the 1930s. According to him, these albums have their own characteristics. political or even geopolitical background.

namely by reading Wand of Otokar (1939), he compares it to Alfred Hitchcock’s The Woman Vanishes – two works that reveal the real anxiety associated with the European events of the time. The director also notes that if Hergé and Hitchcock talk about the rise of fascism and nationalists, they never mention the issue of anti-Semitism.

Thus, the idea of ​​Green Perfume is gradually born in the mind of Nicolas Pariser, who plans to place Jewish characters in the middle of a modern spy story, in the suffering Europe of the 21st century.

Thus, he imagines the story of Martin, a member of the Comedie-Française troupe, who witnesses the poisoning of one of his colleagues in the middle of the performance. Soon suspected by the police and the mysterious organization that ordered the murder, Martin tries to unravel the mystery with the help of Claire, a comic artist.

To embody these characters, Nicolas Pariser is eyeing Vincent Lacoste and Sandrine Kiberlain. As in Alice and Mary, his previous feature, with Fabrice Luchin and Anais Demostieu, the director once again teams up with an unexpected, but terribly delicious and effective duet. In addition to their flawless performance, Green perfume It also seduces with a mix of genres, stylized staging and suspense.

Green perfume Nicolas Pariser with Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lacoste, Rudiger Vogler…

from the age of 10

Tonight on CANAL+ at 9 o’clock.

Source: Allocine

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