THE MORNING LIST
A thriller haunted by the bizarre on Arte.tv, a cross between the Batman galaxy and a gangster movie on Max, and a luxury soap opera set in the world of fashion on Apple TV+ make up three alternatives to the insipid transposition of the “Downfall” franchise in Paris, on Canal+.
“La Casa”: pleats, drapes and low blows in the family
On the same platform as The morning programFrance now also has its luxury soap. And since it is about France, it is set precisely in the cozy corridors of a luxury group and in the workshops of a fashion house fighting for its independence, in a context of fratricidal wars in the upper bourgeoisie. Any resemblance to great figures of French elegance is obviously not accidental and, in its first episodes, which are the most successful, the house He enjoys mixing fiction with reality, among other things in his construction of the character of Vincent Ledu (Lambert Wilson), artistic director of the house that bears his name, whose inspiration ranges from Karl Lagerfeld to Stefano Pilati, even in that of Perle Foster (Amira Casar), a clever cross between Virginie Viard and Inès de la Fressange.
It doesn’t matter if these names mean nothing to the viewers, because the house says less about haute couture than the economic turmoil affecting the sector and its necessary modernisation. This revival is embodied by Paloma (Zita Hanrot), Vincent Ledu’s putative daughter, parachuted into the head of the house against her will, whose task is both to dust off the brand and to prevent it from falling into the clutches of the Rovel group held by the iron fist of Diane (Carole Bouquet). Seductive when it uses comedy and self-deprecation, the series is less so in its somewhat old-fashioned depiction of power issues between members of the same family. However, a handful of particularly successful characters and a premium cast give this Home solid foundations. In. F.
Series created by José Caltagirone and Valentine Milville. Starring Lambert Wilson, Amira Casar, Carole Bouquet, Zita Hanrot, Antoine Reinartz (Fr.-EU, 2024, 10 x 52 minutes). Two episodes on Apple TV+ on September 20, then one episode every Friday.
“The world does not exist”: an investigation haunted by the past
Journalism has left some marks on the head of Erwan Le Duc, former World passed to the realization (Partridge, Her father’s daughter). For his first series, his main character is a taciturn editor who hasn’t done field work for a long time and who volunteers to lead the investigation in Guerches-sur-Isoire, where a teenage girl was murdered. Adam (Niels Schneider), who lives in Paris under a false identity, obviously didn’t tell his editor-in-chief that he had grown up in Guerches and that the prime suspect in young Lola’s murder was a childhood friend – and probably more than a friend.
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