Three teenagers face the challenge of sending intimate photos: What is the cost of Nudes, the new French series from Amazon Prime?

What is it about?

A true television anthology, Naked invites us to discover three different stories, of Victor, Ada and Sofia, three young teenagers at different ages who do not know each other and have little in common.

However, they all know each other well naked, that is, nude photos of yourself sent to a trusted person, usually a romantic or sexual partner. Unfortunately, these naked Not always taken or shared with the consent of the person concerned.

That’s how Victor found himself one day accused of distributing child pornography, in this case a video of a sexual relationship with a young woman during a student party they both attended.

In contrast, Sofia discovers that the following evening, a video of her, filmed without her, is circulating on social networks, in which we see her having sex with another young woman.

As for Ada, it’s a descent into hell the day she’s told that after signing up on a dating app and swapping with an older student at her school, naked When asked, it was placed on pornographic sites.

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One of the features naked It consists in the fact that the stories of Victor, Ada and Sofia are told by three different directors. Thus, behind the camera we find Andrea Bescond (Les chatouilles, when you are big), Lucie Borletto (Sweet Song, My Only Desire) and Sylvie Verheide (Stella, Madame Claude).

In front of the camera, three actors almost unknown to the general public were chosen to portray the young protagonists, namely Léon Dahan-Lamort (Un si grand soleil, Stella est amour), Nelligan (with whom he played his first role on the screen) and Baptiste Masselin (Mixed).

Also look out for supporting appearances from rapper Gring (Comment c’est loin, Blockés), comedian Wally Dia (Commissariat Central, Osmosis, Vise le coeur) and actor Jeremy Gillette (Mito, Very Ordinary People). .

Is it worth checking out?

naked Among our expectations was 2024. Now online, it confirms our intuition: this is the French series at the beginning of the year.

Indeed, we commended you, in early January, for his risky willingness to take on a thoroughly modern subject such as naked, is still rarely addressed in fiction, or even in a central way, as here. And finally, the fact that there is not much talking in the series is very interesting naked rather than human relationships, by avoiding an uninformed and moralizing view of these practices and by showing that violence (cyber-harassment, Revenge porn…) come first, like any new technology or practice that is popular among young people, based on what each person does with it.

naked In addition, it shows some sophistication in its pedagogy. A farmer’s son, from a suburban or bourgeois background, a child from a single family or not, boys and girls accused or accomplices… showing that no young person is safely connected to the drifts. naked And as such, it’s important to know that the series has the intelligence to introduce characters that don’t have much in common. The series is also helped by its good choice of format, an anthology that allows multiple stories to be told over multiple episodes rather than just more than one episode.

quality naked On the other hand, it comes from the strong stories it tells, which is made even more so by the solid casting and, in particular, by three talented and talented young performers, namely Léon Dahan-Lamort, Nelligan and Baptiste Masselin. For example, the scene where the 14-year-old girl Ada receives a proposal is amazing. naked From a young man approaching adulthood, while he’s in pajamas with a cat face pattern, brushing his teeth with his children’s light-up brush. Chilling is also the scene where Victor and his best friend talk in the jacuzzi during the student party, which raises questions.

If not a whole bunch of topics, inside nakedOnly succinctly and secondarily (sex education and consent, homophobia, class hatred, child delinquency, the relationship of trust between police and justice, the feminist re-appropriation of public space), we nevertheless welcome this emphasis that reminds us. We say that all these cases of sexual violence are never just that, but are actually intersected and motivated by many influences on a personal or social scale, which must therefore be taken into account.

naked There’s a new mini-series to discover online starting Thursday, February 1 on Amazon Prime Video.