Canal + diffuses from Monday evening Vernon Subutex, the adaptation of the eponymous novels of Virginie Despentes, with Romain Duris.
This is one of the most anticipated series of the moment in France. Canal + broadcasts from Monday night Vernon Subutex , adaptation of two of the three volumes of the eponymous novel by Virginie Despentes. A bestseller sold at 320,000 copies.
A man who stubbornly refuses to integrate into the system
The fiction begins with a flashback in 1995 at the Revolver, the record store owned by Vernon Subutex, aka Romain Duris. We discover a rock atmosphere, a group of friends and the charisma of the record store. Twenty-three years later, Vernon has lost its beauty. He is in his fifties, a shaggy beard and much less conquests. His store has been closed for a long time and he stubbornly refuses to integrate into the system.
Result: he is expelled from his apartment and is forced to sleep to tour the friends of the great era, as Xavier, married, father, gentrified or Alex Bleach an old friend became a music icon. But the latter dies of an overdose and leaves to Vernon mysterious video tapes that some would like to recover.
Well-paced episodes
In the series, directed by Cathy Verney, the plot is closer to the thriller. The nine episodes of 30 minutes are also well paced. And if is not a direct transposition of the work - Virginie Despentes did not participate in the adaptation - the spirit of the book is there. And rock too. The sounds of Sonic Youth, Poni Hoax, Daniel Darc, Thugs, New Order and Jesus and Mary Chain resonate in the ears of viewers. And for good reason, for this fiction, the budget devoted to music was seven times larger than for a traditional series.