INTERVIEW
Mathias Malzieu, leader of the French rock group Dionysos, returns with a new album Surprisier , and his film Une sirène à Paris , to be found on cinema screens from March 11. A new feature film adapted from his novel of the same name, published in 2019. It tells the story of a mermaid who fails in Paris thanks to the flood of the Seine and who meets a young man with a broken heart. Singer, writer, film director ... Mathias Malzieu would "love" also writing a series. He unveils one of his projects at the microphone of Philippe Vandel on Wednesday.
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If Mathias Malzieu confesses to having a few ideas for a series, he will only reveal the pitch of one. But what a story! The director knew how to make our mouths water. He confides that his idea for a series is based on the story of his father, who lived with his grandmother who hid resistants. "When he was little, he crossed the line, hidden in a hay cart," he said.
"With this box, he will be able to stop time and change the course of history"
Starting from this true and personal story, Mathias Malzieu had the idea of entrusting to his main character, inspired by his own father, "a magic box which he is absolutely forbidden to open". A mysterious box that actually contains the heart of Jack, a character that Mathias Malzieu had written for his animated film Jack and the mechanics of the heart , co directed with Stéphane Berla and released in 2014.
"With this box, he will be able to stop time and change the course of history," continues the artist. "He will become the most effective ten-year resistance fighter in history and change the course of the war," reveals Mathias Malzieu. In short, a series at the crossroads of History, personal history and science fiction.