The fifth edition of CANNESERIES continues with exclusive events. Fans of TV newspapers were able to attend the meeting and signing session with the teams of Demain Nous Belong, Ici Tout Commence and Plus Belle La Vie, while others were able to discover the first episodes of the documentary series Soprano about life and death. Coming soon to Disney +. Both lucky men and women were able to attend Gillian Anderson’s master class.
As for the non-competitive series, we were able to discover a new original CANAL + creature that plunges us into the mysteries of space and is called Infiniti. On the competition side were two series reminiscent of the eighties and crime, the Italian Bang Bang Baby and the Belgian 1985.
Bang Bang Baby (Contest)
Navigation between teen drama and mafia thriller, bang bang baby Follows the arrival of a 16-year-old teenager, Alice in Hell, looking for answers about her origins. Having spent the worldly and boring life of being with his mother Gabriela in the 1980s in northern Italy, he dreams of somewhere else where his father, who he thinks is dead, returns to the horrible landscape he has been watching ever since.
Everything changes when he learns that his father Santo Maria is actually in a Milan prison. This union will be crucial for the young woman who joins her father’s family, which is part of a mafia branch headed by her grandmother Nona Lina. There, Alice then sinks into crime.
If gangsters and mafia were widely treated in Italian movies and series, Bang Bang Baby is known for its authentic emancipation story and embodied in the excellent performance of Ariana Becheron in the skin of this young woman who is ready to do anything. Fatherly love, even playing with the codes of the elders to better overthrow the norms. The atmosphere of the eighties, the madness of the characters and the explosive and sometimes sour staging make the Andrea Di Stefano series a delicious pastime. It remains to be seen how long it will last.
Infiniti (without competition)
After Les Revenants, Vernon Subutex and La Flamme, Celine Salet is the protagonist of the new original CANAL + creatures, which promised to be fascinating and in-demand. In InfinitiHe plays Anna Zarathit, a French astronaut who has been released from the ISS (International Space Station) mission in favor of Anthony Kurz, an American astronaut.
When he disappears, the various nations involved in the mission turn to Anna, who was close to Anthony. This complex space exploration takes on a whole new dimension when Anthony’s beheaded, wax-covered body was found in Kazakhstan. With the help of a missing Kazakh policeman, Isaac Turgun (Daniar Alshinov), Anna will try to understand this unexplained phenomenon by deciphering the star signs.
Filmed in Ukraine, Kazakhstan and France, this supernatural thriller about the world of esotericism gives itself the means of its ambitions to offer a wonderful show and arrange its audience in a luxurious setting, between the Kazakh steppe and the restored plans of space. When navigating between several languages, the characters sometimes sink into a rather slow and intimate conspiracy, which can lead to the loss of several souls along the way, while the paths are blurred and the truth is always a little different.
1985 (Competition)
The first series is co-produced by La Une (RTBF) and Eén (VRT). 1985 Is a major political-social thriller reminiscent of one of the darkest episodes in Belgian history. The series really tells the story of a wave of robberies and murders that took place from 1981 to 1985, attributed to the so-called “Brabant killers”, criminals who were never found.
To revisit this period of horror and political change, the creators chose to bring three friends, Vicky, his brother Frank, and his best friend Mark, young people, young people full of ideals and dreams, to Brussels. But their different trajectory – he is a rebellious and progressive law student, they become prey to rotten cops and corrupt bosses – deeply hurts their strong friendship, which is on the test.
Their weakened relationship is aimed at reflecting an unprecedented crisis in Belgium, marked by a public distrust of the political world and the police, with the arrest of a polluted influential leader involved in trafficking, drugs and the attack on an exemplary major. This event will lead Belgium and our three heroes to a hellish and horrible spiral that echoes terribly in our time.
Very well built and brilliantly written, 1985 is a fascinating series depicting a period of fear in Belgium. Using this troubled time as a backdrop, this fiction based freely on real events, above all, wants to say the loss of innocence and the complete disappointment of youth. In addition to the tools introduced to stage this thrilling and powerful social thriller and return to the 80s with enthusiasm, we welcome great actor performances that navigate between Flemish and French.
Source: allocine
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