Le Monde does not exist in arte: is the ending the same as in the novel?

On September 26, at 8:55 p.m., viewers on Arte got to know Adam Vollman (Nils Schneider) and the investigation the latter is conducting into his past. A few hours later, when “There Is No World” was broadcast simultaneously, they knew the end of the story. Unlike those who discovered the mini-series at the Series Mania festival in March, where only two of the four episodes were presented. Even if it means creating some frustration.

People who read Fabre Humbert’s novel of the same name, from which the mini-series is inspired, were also disappointed. The latter actually did not know the end of history before everyone else, for a simple and good reason: “The End Is Very Open”Director and creator Erwan Le Duc tells us. “There is no real ending or resolution.”

“It’s really mental and we don’t know. That it would be dangerous, and almost too easy, not to continue the story we have invented, though we have kept the part somewhat obscure in this resolution, that the moral, if any, may not be so simple.

From the United States to the north of France

But this is not the only important change made by Erwan Le Duc and his co-author Mariet Dessert. Because they also took liberties with moving the US action north of France. Is it because the director is from Dwayne? “When we wrote the script, we didn’t have the region in mind, we didn’t say we were absolutely going to come to Hauts-de-France.”

“There are also funding issues to consider: we’re making proposals for several regions and there are some where it’s more interesting than others.” And it’s great that the region supported us, because I was happy to be back here, and then we tell the story of a character who comes back to his city “after 20 or 25 years, and it was happening to me too, because I haven’t been back in a long time either.”

“It’s always interesting when we tell something as intimate as this and it connects and intersects with our problems and our own feelings. When we were scouting the location, it was really exciting for me to rediscover that atmosphere. , this mining architecture. With everything around the pool, with the cubes, I quickly felt like I wanted to capture the location and locations of the series, which plays a lot on Earth.”

little brain pixies?

Is this a land that favors the offbeat humor that graces the series? And that leads to Bruno Dumont’s P’tit Quinquin, which takes place in the same part of France. Or The Irresistible Twin Peaks, a reference we’re more likely to think of because the world doesn’t exist, at first, also takes place in the United States. “David Lynch And Twin Peaks was a very strong reference, yes. For freedom and formal boldness, as well as for the way the story is told. Bruno Dumont was also part of it: first of all to photograph the landscapes of northern France. Then the light, the settings, the people.”

“And that freedom and irreverence is shared with Twin Peaks, this way of playing with pure grotesque. I don’t know if it’s a region in particular that allows you to play with settings like that, but I use them. A lot of times when I’m location scouting, I pick some because they’re immediately They give me ideas for staging or gadgets or side steps, just like that.”

The gags you’ll find in four episodes of The World Does Not Exist, available on Arte from September 26.

Comments collected by Maximilien Pierret in Lille on March 18, 2024