Francis is a keen observer, cerebral and perceptive. Bob, his ex-girlfriend turned best friend, is confident, honest and irresistible. Despite breaking up three years earlier, Frances and Bob remain inseparable, performing poetry in Dublin’s art scene. During one of the performances, they meet Melissa, an older novelist, who is fascinated by the duo. Bobby and Frances begin dating Melissa and her husband, Nick, a handsome, reserved actor. As Melissa and Bob openly flirt, Nick and Frances surprisingly begin an intense secret romance. This novel tests the bond between Frances and Bobby, forcing Frances to reconsider her place and the friendship she holds so dear.
Talking to Friends, a series created by Alison Birch with Alison Oliver, Sasha Lane, Jemima Kirke, Jo Alvin… The first four episodes air at 21:10 on Canal+ and are available on MyCanal.
with his old couple’s story, Bob and Frances are friends who cross paths with another couple, Melissa and Nick, whose conversation with friends looks like vaudeville from a distance. But modern vaudeville with real and troubling questions about what love is and whether it differs from desire.
Sally Rooney’s prose, as simple as it sounds, is most seductive because of its complexity. His way of painting portraits reveals characters who are rarely shiny and inward, but whose mystery and turmoil sometimes touch the heart.
It is this type of character that we find here with Frances, a young woman who is very reserved but vibrates through the poetry she writes and in contact with Nick, this shy actor who also keeps his emotions in check.
We find Lenny Abrahamson behind the camera again in this adaptation. We remember his depictions of normal people as scorching as they are delicate. He maintains the same somewhat modest distance with this circle of characters who wander and eventually find each other.
But conversations with friends suffer from the inevitable comparison with normal people, which touches everyone’s heart and soul. We leave here the intimacy of the couple to witness the formation of the quartet, a little too classically distinguished. However, Alison Oliver’s precision and sensitivity in her characterization of Frances makes as strong an impression as Daisy Edgar-Jones in Normal People.
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