There is currently an excellent French series that no one cares about (and that’s a shame)

The House opens its doors to you

Apple TV+’s original production strategy is a mystery. Jokes and memes abound on the networks: prestigious castings, tens of millions spent, productions high end and on average 32 viewers… The Apple company, which cultivates secrecy and extreme discretion for its iconic products, strangely applies the same method for its series and feature films. Most recent example: black comedy Wolves starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, directed by Jon Watts, completely under the radar. While Netflix spends lavishly to make its programs exist and we don’t miss anything, Apple does the opposite. An unfortunate mystery, since many of his productions deserve to be heard.

This is therefore the case of The Housea Franco-American production that tells the daily life of a family that owns a high fashion house, Maison Ledu. This family consists of the famous designer Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), his muse Perle Foster (Amira Casar), his sister Marie (Anne Consigny) and his brother Victor (Pierre Deladonchamps). The latter sided with the “enemy” by marrying Caroline Revel (Florence Loiret-Caille), daughter of the all-powerful Diane Rovel (Carole Bouquet), the richest woman in Europe and head of the Revel group, a competitor of the Ledu house. . Finally, just to further fuel a twisted family intrigue, there is Robinson Ledu (Antoine Reinartz), son of Marie, the brilliant creator but ugly duckling of the family who is looking for his place.

In the heart of a high fashion house

All seems to be going well in the Ledu household, until Vincent Ledu, exasperated by an impatient Chinese clientele, launches into a racist invective, a comment caught by an indiscreet camera. The scandal broke out, in clear reference to that of John Galliano, and Vincent Ledu had to withdraw from the maison that he had brought to the top of world haute couture. Enter Paloma Castel (Zita Hanrot), a young ready-to-wear designer on the rise and the daughter of Vincent’s ex-lover. Succession is necessary and with it a settlement of personal and professional accounts.

A successful trend and casting

In many ways, La Maison has learned the lesson of the monument Succession. We follow this independent house and this ultra-rich family, caught in a Shakespearean tragedy and whose representation is more elegant than ostentatious in the display of wealth as in the psychological painting of the characters. The very talented cast of The House offers ideal performance. Lambert Wilson and Carole Bouquet, powerful and charismatic “veterans”, each attempt with vice and pleasure to manipulate the younger generations to overcome the rival house. A young generation that has other ideals and other aspirations. If the writing of Paloma Castel’s character, between the social deserter and the dog in a bowling game, is a bit caricatural, the others of her generation demonstrate sufficient complexity for each of their actions to be both logical and unexpected. , effective and of great impact.

Parades, tense operations rascal of marketing, wars of influence and sentimental conflicts… With this series on the world of fashion we cannot help but perceive a vague atmosphere in the first episode Emily in Paris. But The House it doesn’t make you laugh and uses an irony with finesse that is not so much that of its authors but rather that inherent in the world of fashion. What we then find in Netflix’s success is the attention paid to the refinement, half real and half fantastic, of the world of fashion and its manners. If we could imagine how this series could have developed on a more comedic side, it would have been an easy choice. But the cynical tendency to I hate watching how the use of comedy to break free from profundity are fortunately in decline, and the maturity and seriousness shown by The House they largely go hand in hand with the ambition to take the viewer behind the scenes of this environment so that he can intelligently enjoy it.

Diligently produced by Fabrice Gobert and Daniel Grou, The House is excellent entertainment, of which four episodes are already available on the Apple TV+ platform. With a new episode every Friday – this first season has ten – we highly recommend you discover this highly successful series.

Source: Cine Serie

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