If we learned anything from Tony Soprano, it’s that even the world’s worst criminals need a mediator. And in Furies, a high-octane French action series, there are six mafia families in need of some major — and majorly violent — intervention. While hunting down her father’s murderer, a young woman is recruited by the peacekeeper of the Paris mafia who’s looking for a successor to thwart an impending war among the city’s criminal underbelly. Starring Lina El Arabi, Marina Foïs, and Mathieu Kassovitz, the series is from Kepler(s) creators Jean-Yves Arnaud and Yoann Legave.
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College student Lyna (El Arabi) is excited for her birthday — her favorite day of the year. And this’ll be one she’ll never forget… but for all the wrong reasons. As she sits down to celebrate with her parents,...
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College student Lyna (El Arabi) is excited for her birthday — her favorite day of the year. And this’ll be one she’ll never forget… but for all the wrong reasons. As she sits down to celebrate with her parents,...
- 3/5/2024
- by Ingrid Ostby
- Tudum - Netflix
Netflix's new 2024 series, Furies, is headlined by a talented cast of French actors, such as Lina El Arabi and Steve Tientcheu.
The series chronicles the story of Lyna as she embarks on a journey inside the Paris criminal underworld to uncover the identity of her father's killer.
Furies premiered on Netflix on March 1.
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The series chronicles the story of Lyna as she embarks on a journey inside the Paris criminal underworld to uncover the identity of her father's killer.
Furies premiered on Netflix on March 1.
Read full article on The Direct.
- 3/4/2024
- by Aeron Mer Eclarinal
- The Direct
Mathieu Kassovits, in the role of Driss, has done an excellent job in the eight-part French series Furies. It turns out that the character (Driss), whom we all thought was dead, was alive all along and suddenly came back to avenge his fall. Selma, Driss’ sister, had been given the task of finishing him off (for betraying the godfathers), but she couldn’t bring herself to murder her own blood. Leaving him alive was one of Selma’s biggest mistakes, as he would surely return to cause trouble for the ganglords one day. Would Driss really come back? What did Driss actually want from the godfathers? Let’s find out!
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Why Was Driss Intent On Capturing Lyna?
When Lyna went to meet him after so many years in jail, he was extremely excited. He was finally experiencing a hearty conversation with his own daughter. However, the jail that...
Spoilers Ahead
Why Was Driss Intent On Capturing Lyna?
When Lyna went to meet him after so many years in jail, he was extremely excited. He was finally experiencing a hearty conversation with his own daughter. However, the jail that...
- 3/3/2024
- by Debjyoti Dey
- Film Fugitives
The steaming chaos and viciously hurled epithets of such reality shows as “Top Chef” and “Kitchen Nightmares” thankfully have no place in “Kitchen Brigade,” which sees a gifted chef train eager amateurs with quiet hauteur, exacting shallot-slicing demands and, in time, a dose of kindness. The stakes are higher, too, in director Louis-Julien Petit’s amiable social dramedy: These young apprentices aren’t sharpening their skills merely to stay in a competition, but to stay in the country, threatened as they are with deportation if they can’t acquire relevant skills. The cruelties of the French immigration system lend a bitter back note to Petit’s otherwise upbeat heartwarmer — a mostly palatable affair that can’t wholly sidestep white-savior cliché in a rushed final course.
Petit’s previous three films — “Discount,” “Invisibles” and the Isabelle Adjani starrer “Carole Matthieu” — established his credentials as a maker of socially conscious entertainments, trading...
Petit’s previous three films — “Discount,” “Invisibles” and the Isabelle Adjani starrer “Carole Matthieu” — established his credentials as a maker of socially conscious entertainments, trading...
- 1/13/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Body language is the only one worth paying attention to in Mounia Meddour’s “Houria,” shown at Cairo Film Festival this week.
Her protagonist, a talented dancer, dreams of joining the Algerian National Ballet, but a violent attack leaves her broken – and mute. When she meets other women, all trying to overcome their own traumas, she starts developing her own choreography, inspired by sign language.
“In Algeria, people speak a lot. They want to explain everything. Here, it was all about trying to express things without words. We used bodies instead,” says the director, also behind the script.
“It’s their clandestine language. Only these women can understand it and they can use it to communicate with each other.”
Meddour’s idea mesmerized “Coda’s” Troy Kotsur, who joined the film as executive producer. But it also helped her examine the themes of sisterhood.
Mounia Meddour
“At the beginning of the movie,...
Her protagonist, a talented dancer, dreams of joining the Algerian National Ballet, but a violent attack leaves her broken – and mute. When she meets other women, all trying to overcome their own traumas, she starts developing her own choreography, inspired by sign language.
“In Algeria, people speak a lot. They want to explain everything. Here, it was all about trying to express things without words. We used bodies instead,” says the director, also behind the script.
“It’s their clandestine language. Only these women can understand it and they can use it to communicate with each other.”
Meddour’s idea mesmerized “Coda’s” Troy Kotsur, who joined the film as executive producer. But it also helped her examine the themes of sisterhood.
Mounia Meddour
“At the beginning of the movie,...
- 11/17/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
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