What is it about?
For a year, the sailing ship “Ariana” and its twelve passengers were missing. When it suddenly appears, with only seven to twelve passengers on board, the remaining families must relearn how to live with missing people turned strangers, or accept the death of their loved ones. But the seven survivors also share a terrible secret…
Every Wednesday at 21:10 on France 2 (three episodes a week). Episodes Watched: 3/10.
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Whoever says international production must say international casting. Les Rescapés de l’Arianna is the result of a collaboration between RAI Fiction, Rodeo Drive, Cinétévé, France Télévisions and ZDF Néo, with distribution coming from all over Europe.
The French Steffi Selma, whom we were able to especially in Dix Pour Cent or even Lost Ball, thus camps Sylvie, the wife of one of the survivors, who will have to manage the return of her husband, whom she thought was dead.
Young Adele Vismes, who appeared in the OCS Les Grands series, slips into the skin of one of the survivors, the mysterious Leah. Lino Guansale, Barbora Bobulova, Vincenzo Ferrera and Sophie Pfenigstorf are the actors.
On the production side, Carmine Elia (La Porta Rossa) handles the shots, while the scripts are written by Viola Rispoli (Ph.D.), Massimo Bacchini, Sofia Bruschetta, Giovanni Gallassi, Ivano Facini, and Tommaso Matano.
Is it worth checking out?
Around the world in 80 days and after the gap (which aired on the channel last June), France 2 offers Les Survivors de l’Arianna this summer, its new fiction with Germany and Italy.
But where Abyss offered a futuristic sci-fi thriller set against the backdrop of global warming, this new disaster mini-series is a little lacking in substance and originality.
A year after her mysterious disappearance, the sailing ship Ariana was found at sea. If the families of the twelve crew members are already excited by this unexpected return, they are quickly disappointed when they learn that only seven survived. But what happened to them on the boat?
Each of the survivors is questioned by the police to understand the unfolding of the events at sea, faced with their evasive or overly precise explanations, the mother of one of the missing begins to doubt the version being spread. He then begins an investigation to find out the truth.
If the Arianna Survivors mystery had it all — a lost ship, survivors hiding a dark secret, and families dealing with the sudden reappearance of those they thought dead — the miniseries tries to find its rhythm in 12 episodes.
If the flashbacks let us know very quickly that the survivors are hiding many secrets, the sequence in the present, where the characters try to adjust to this unexpected return, leaves us unmoved.
A very slow pace and inappropriate dialogues may detract in more ways than one. And it’s not the gruesome green-screen footage of the boat that manages to salvage this television wreckage.
Only the mystery of what really happened on the sailboat manages to hook us and almost compel us to keep watching. In short, Survivors of Arianna is an unforgettable mini-series that will fill the long summer evenings of genre fans looking for something new this summer.
Source: Allocine
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