Eva and Yannis, parents of a one-month-old girl, move into their new suburban home and are looking for a fresh start. But one evening, after a tragic accident, their baby suddenly dies. Broken Eva and Yannis try to rebuild themselves. They find comfort with their neighbors across the street, Livia and Stephen. She’s a nurse, he’s a police officer.
A special bond is formed between the two couples: they share sorrows, joys… and soon more. Their destinies are intertwined and entwined beyond reason, endlessly, so that neither will emerge unscathed.
Every Tuesday at 9.10pm on M6 from 20 September and now available in full on Salto.
Watched 6 episodes out of 6.
To portray Eva and Yanis, a couple whose lives change from the first episode of La Maison d’en Face, M6 called Julie de Bona (Plan B, Learn to Love), who has been multiplying TV projects for several years and is currently. In the credits of Les Combattantes on TF1 and Marc Ruchman, recently seen in the Koer films of Manipulation and Plan.
Opposite them are two equally familiar faces to the audience who camp Livia and Stefan: Caterina Murino (Balthazar, Le Temps est Assassin) and Thierry Nevivik (Juste un regard, Sam, J’ai menti).
Beautiful headliners that the public will find alongside, namely Antoine Duler, Jean-Stan du Pak (Lies), Fatima Adumi (Christmas on every floor), Baptiste Carrion-Weiss (Spikerin), Xavier Robique (Police de Caractères), Juliette Navis ( All Life is Connected), Rani Beymuk (Tomorrow Belongs to Us), or even Emma Boulanois (Samia Here It All Begins).
Do we really know our neighbors? This is the question posed by La Maison d’en Face, the new M6 series presented a few days ago at the La Rochelle TV Fiction Festival without competition. This question, as well as the idea that there is always no doubt about the dramas and horrors that are going on outside the opposite or neighboring window, is clearly reminiscent of Desperate Housewives, in which the inhabitants of Wisteria Lane hid their worst secrets.
Certainly darker than the iconic American series starring Teri Hatcher and Eva Longoria, which offered real moments of comedy in each episode, La Maison d’en Face in no way denies its major influence and regularly observes it. Starting from a residential suburb where the story unfolds, it evokes many memories and quickly becomes the scene of more or less far-fetched deviations.
Adapted from the Dutch format Nieuwe Buren, this sexual thriller, directed by Lionel Bailliu (Soupçons, Innocente) and written by the latter and Deborah Hadjej, turns out to be very addictive, despite the intrigue of the police against the background of the drug trade, which we would love to have. Done without. In each of the six episodes, we’re left with just one idea: to find out what happened during the neighbors’ party, which apparently turned into a tragedy and ended with at least one person dead.
An event that is told in flash-forwards at the beginning of each episode, adding to a plot that already lacked bite. Indeed, the sudden death of a newborn, swinging, infidelity, adultery, infertility, family secrets, or a scandal over a high school sex tape, nothing saves us. And that’s a good thing, because the soap side is the most enjoyable part of this series, which sometimes goes too far with its characters, who are willing to do anything to achieve their goals.
As the story of La Maison d’en Face progresses, the more the characters reveal their true colors. Jules de Bona allowed herself to be stunned in a more troubled register than what we’ve been accustomed to, inheriting Caterina Murino in one of her best roles.
So it’s too bad if the series collects social themes with relative subtlety and if the ending is a little too big for our taste. Twists and dirty tricks follow each other at high speed for our utmost enjoyment. And the performances of all the actors, as well as the mix of thrillers, soaps and sex thrillers in which they are set, make this new fantasy highly recommended entertainment.
Note that the broadcast of La Maison d’en Face is followed every Tuesday at 23:10 by the Spanish series Everybody Lies, which has roughly the same plot elements.
Source: allocine
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