Vincent Werner. A cop who is no longer a cop has been fired by his superiors for his passion for the truth. A character who cannot lie. Alisa Mojodi, a barely 30-year-old prosecutor from Diversity. Together with Mallory and de Greve, a computer hacker and the son of a broken family, they form a team of sensitive cases. That is, M’s business group…!
But they need one last trump card. It will be Werner, drawn from a bookstore that specializes in thrillers, because this thug knows better all the techniques of investigation without being locked up due to the severity of the criminal code. Their targets: powerful individuals from the business world, the star system and the political world, usually untouchable. Their Rule: Like those they study, they have no…
Wednesday, August 31 at 9:10 p.m. on France 2
Currently in the somersault credits for thriller Syndrome E, soon to air on TF1, Vincent Elbaz (No Limit) lends his chops to Antoine Werner, the ex-cop hero of All Lies who was fired for going all the way. on the truth of the investigation.
Alongside him, Mariama Guay (Fun) plays Alice Mojodi, a young prosecutor assigned to lead a sensitive case, while Josephine de Meo (Cesar Wagner) and Thomas Silberstein (Kepler(s)) play the other two members of the team: Mallory, A. A policeman who specializes in computer hacking and Julien de Greve who knows the codes and manners of the upper middle class like no one else.
Finally, the rest of the cast includes Anne Giroux (Camelot) as Isabelle, Werner’s next-door neighbor, and Jackie Berroyer as a former bank robber turned bookseller specializing in thrillers – and, incidentally, “Antoine’s” boss and best friend. Without Forgetting Nicolas Marie (Adieu les cons, Les Mystères de la choir) as Charles Favan, a big boss in the automotive industry who is at the forefront of the Sensitive Affairs group’s first case.
After La Doc et le Véto or Les Pennac, both of which went through the pilot box before becoming a series, France Télévisions continues its policy of testing TV films with Everyone lies, which airs tonight on France 2 and may thus return to television. Channel with new episodes soon if successful.
And if we might have feared that Ellen Angel’s TV movie (What’s Wrong with My Family?) is another soulless detective comedy commissioned simply to make HPI successful, all the lies quickly turn out to be a pleasant surprise. Who owes his efficiency to the gallery of his favorite characters, to the knowledge of Olivier Noreck (Code 93, surface), a police captain turned novelist and screenwriter, and, incidentally, more political than meets the eye.
Like Perfect Crimes or its famous model Columbo, this new detective fiction is not based on the search for the identity of the criminal – his face and his name are known to the audience from the very successful first section – but, on the contrary, on how the heroes will be able to corner him.
This pilot’s featured guest, Nicholas Marr, also excels as Favani, the big bad guy in the Sensitive Affairs team’s first investigation. An unscrupulous big boss who obviously leaves the dirty work to others and leans in untouchable. Whatever may happen. But that was without considering Vincent Werner and his team of fringe and unorthodox cops, who will do anything to catch him and prove that he’s behind the murder they’re trying to solve.
Already at the helm of the very good France 2 series Les Invisibles, soon to return for a second season, screenwriter Olivier Noreck finds with everyone that his favorite themes and atmosphere, with a group of police officers, anything but ordinary. And a highly political reflection, as here he brutally thwarts the powerful, after becoming particularly interested in ecology in his novel. InfluencePublished in 2020.
A thousand leagues from the tortured and borderline Charcot he portrays in E Syndrome, Vincent Elbaz seems to be having a lot of fun playing Werner, the cop who was fired for going too far in his pursuit of the truth and who never gives up. up. And his pleasure is clearly communicative. Around him, Marima Guay, who continues to explode the screen funny and after Sophie Cross, Josephine de Mea and Thomas Silberstein perfectly perform this team of sensitive issues, which is really a good idea for everyone to lie.
Indeed, seeing these four characters, who are not a priori created to interact and cooperate with each other, gradually feel each other and join forces to act across the borders, even beyond the criminal code, and thus achieve their goals. Too bad if the investigation itself is not very original. It’s really the way this team works and the comedy that comes from their strong characters that makes for a TV movie.
So one can only hope that Everyone Lies, which is much more successful than Grilled Chicks, which recently aired on France 3 in the same slot, will manage to find its audience so that another investigation by the Sensitive Affairs group can appear.
Source: allocine
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