Myskina is the story of 30-year-old Fara. Without an apartment, without a job, without a boyfriend, but with strong myopia. When your grandmother, mother and sister are on your ribs 24/7, it’s time to wake up and make a choice. Between her best friend, who might be the man of her life, and this new guy who’s a little more up her alley, who she falls in love with. Between saving her mother, still stuck in the past, and rebuilding her relationship with her father. Between the constant covering up of a person and finally confronting the truth. When life gets in your way, you have to take responsibility and stop being a “scumbag”.
After Forte aired exclusively on Prime Video during his incarceration, Melha Bedia is once again collaborating with the streaming platform on what promises to be his most personal project to date. He surrounds himself especially with Xavier Lacaille in front of and behind the screen. Shirine Boutella, seen in Christmas Stream and Lupine, portrays her on-screen sister. The latter falls under the spell of Victor Belmondo, who stuns and explodes. As for comedian Hakim Jamil, he plays the role of our hero’s childhood friend.
Of Mela Bedia, above all, we know her attraction to comedy – be it in the films Forte and La très très grande classe or in the Mike series. He subverts this image slightly in Myskina, which he co-wrote with Xavier Lacaille and Xavier Lacombe and which he directed. An original creation and largely inspired by its history.
She appears for the first time as Melha and not ‘sister’ and not someone who is there just to make people laugh. The actor touches the role of this lost thirty-year-old and accurately embodies a generation that cannot move forward.
Not really a comedy or a drama, Myskina is better suited to the drama box. This is a slice of life story about a “Galeian” who is searching for himself and who is gradually discovering who he is. The series takes us from the Paris region to Kabali and its magnificent landscapes and makes us discover the entire culture. Which got us thinking about Ram, the equally successful American TV series that follows a young American-Egyptian.
Yes, the series is peppered with Arabic words, just like the series’ name – but never excludes viewers who don’t understand the language. It also leads to some pretty fun scenes, especially around Victor Belmondo’s character. This makes Myskina a rare series in the current audiovisual landscape, and a good one to watch.
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