Laura Smet and Tom Hygreck in "La Garçonne". - Christophe BRACHET - Mother Production - FTV

Cock-a-doodle Doo ! A glance at the program schedules for the start of the school year is enough to see that the rise of French series is being confirmed. Here are the seven French fictions which will make the event and which should not be missed.

“La garçonne”, from August 31 at 9:05 pm on France 2

A dive into the Paris of the Roaring Twenties! In La Garçonne , a 6x52-minute miniseries, Laura Smet plays Louise Kerlac, a woman witness to the murder of a loved one, committed by state agents. Forced to disappear, she disguises herself and assumes the identity of her brother, broken by the war. In order to try to exonerate herself, she integrates the criminal police in her place in the Paris of the interwar period. A world hitherto forbidden to women and her lifelong dream… For this historical drama, the daughter of Johnny Hallyday shot under the camera of the Franco-American director Paolo Barzman ( Sydney Fox, the adventurer, Léa Parker ). The actress gave the reply to Tom Hygreck ( Cassandre, 24 Days, the truth about the Ilan Halimi affair ) and Grégory Fitoussi (The Legends Office ).

Arsène Lupine, coming soon to Netflix

@NetflixFR unveiled the first image of @ OmarSy in # ArsèneLupine, alongside him in particular, Nicole Garcia, Clotilde Hesme and Ludivine Sagnier. George Kay (#Criminal) and François Uzan (#FamilyBusiness) on screenplay, Louis Leterrier on direction. pic.twitter.com/BUvPs6xVP1

- Anne Demoulin (@Andiwahloo) December 18, 2019

This contemporary version of the history of Arsène Lupine is one of the most anticipated productions of 2020. In this series freely adapted from the work of Maurice Leblanc, Omar Sy plays the famous gentleman burglar, past master in the art of disguise. The actor will be surrounded by other big names in French cinema such as Nicole Garcia, Ludivine Sagnier and Hervé Pierre, member of the Comédie Française. Clotilde Hesme (who has already crossed paths with the actor in Chocolat ), Shirine Boutella ( Papicha ) Soufiane Guerrab ( La Vie scolaire ) and Antoine Gouy ( Budapest ) complete the credits. Behind the camera, the first three episodes of this series will be signed by Louis Leterrier, the director of another Netflix series, Dark Crystal: Time for rebirth.

It sends from the Louvre.

Arsène Lupine, currently filming. pic.twitter.com/BMafJm4hQt

- Netflix France (@NetflixFR) March 9, 2020

“Grand Hôtel”, from September 3 on TF1

Carole Bouquet, Hippolyte Girardot, Solène Hebert, Bruno Solo, Heloise Martin, Anny Duperey or Alain-Fabien Delon and Victor Meutelet ( Le Bazar de la charité )…. Grand Hôtel benefits from a 5-star cast. Adapted from a successful Spanish series broadcast between 2011 and 2013, TF1's fiction follows the adventures of Anthony Costa (Victor Meutelet), who was hired in a historic palace on the Côte d'Azur as a waiter in order to understand what happened to her sister, a maid in the establishment, who had been missing for several months. Anthony is going to fall in love with Victoire, the heiress of the Vasseur family, who is about to marry the manager of the hotel. Buried family secrets will resurface.

After La Mante , Carole Bouquet plays Agnès Vasseur, a woman of power ready to do anything to preserve secrets likely to harm the family empire, in this eight-part series directed by Yann Samuell and Jérémy Minui. “This mother of three children reigns over the Grand Hotel as over her clan: with coldness and without qualms! Authoritarian, she always displays a big smile and never gets angry. Her naturalness and impassiveness, even when performing monstrous acts, is utterly bewildering. She sets very few limits to achieve her goals. She uses manipulation and never feels guilty when it comes to saving the family business, ”says the actress in the press kit for the series. With its love story and its family secrets, Grand Hotel should keep TF1 viewers in suspense for four weeks.

"Laëtitia", in September on France 3

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- Anne Demoulin (@Andiwahloo) December 12, 2019

"I told myself that telling the life of a girl of the people massacred at the age of 18 was a project of general interest, like a public service mission", writes the historian Ivan Jablonka in Laëtitia ou la fin men . “I wanted to talk about Laëtitia's life. Not of the corpse cut into pieces, but of this young woman who had sorrows, joys, little friends; who has gone through hardships, but who had his share of happiness, ”explained Ivan Jablonka, author of Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes , during a round table on the occasion of the La Rochelle Fiction Festival 2019. It is therefore on France 3 that we will discover the adaptation of the 2016 Medici Prize inspired by the tragic news item of the assassination of Laëtitia Perrais. It took all the sensitivity of Jean-Xavier de Lestrade to film not a news item on "the atrocious death of a young girl" but to expose a world of "ordinary almost invisible violence" with such accuracy. This moving miniseries of 4 52-minute episodes starring Alix Poisson, Sam Karmann and Kevin Azaïs, is the first French series selected at the Sundance Film Festival 2020.

"No Man's Land", in September on Arte

Between spy thriller and family drama, No Man's Land is a series concocted by the cream of Israeli TV (the team behind False Flag ) and the best of French production (Haut et Court to whom we owe in particular The Young Pope, Les RevENTS, Silex and The City ). This 8x45 minute series takes us on a quest, in the midst of the Syrian conflict and alongside the Kurdish combatants, of a young Frenchman (Félix Moati) in search of his presumed dead sister (Mélanie Thierry). A dive into the heart of Daesh and a singular and intimate look at the tragic events with global repercussions in this region of the world.

"The man I condemned", soon on M6

NEW FICTION: The Man I Condemned with Ophelia Kolb and Stanley Weber.
Designated to be a juror in a criminal trial, Inès helps convict the accused. What if she had just sent an innocent man behind bars? # R EntréeGroupeM6 pic.twitter.com/2AjYEwX8fX

- M6 (@ M6) September 3, 2019

Written by Fanny Robert and Sophie Lebarbier, the creators of Profilage on TF1, The Man I Condemned, a miniseries in four 52-minute episodes directed by Stéphane Marsil, Sophie Lebarbier and Fanny Robert, directed Ophelia Kolb ( Ten for cent ) in the role of Inès, a 40-year-old nurse. Appointed as a juror during an assize trial, she helped convict Jimmy Breyer to 15 years in prison for the murder of his neighbor. When she leaves the court, she meets the eyes of Arthur, eight years old, son of the condemned man… She is seized with a terrible doubt: what if she had just sent an innocent person behind bars? What if she had just unfairly separated a father from his 8-year-old son, whom he would not see grow up? With the help of a private detective with a strong character, Inès will start her own counter-investigation. To respond to Ophelia Kolb, Stanley Weber ( Le Temps est assassin, Mouche ), Lucile Marquis ( Clem, Profiling ) and Frédéric Diefenthal ( Tomorrow belongs to us ).

“Moah”, October 1st at 8:40 pm on OCS Max

Moah is a silent series that will be talked about! “The series, sometimes funny, moving or distressing, is a narrative and visual feat. Because without dialogue or music, the bet was not won in advance! “, Had promised the Lille festival when announcing the selection of the last Festival series Mania, canceled due to Covid-19. Created by Henri Debeurme, Benjamin Rocher, Bertrand Soulier, from an original idea by Henri Debeurme, this 10x26 minute series is produced by Benjamin Rocher to whom we owe the excellent Antigang . Empreintes Digitales, the producers of Marianne, Les Grands et Missions, immerse us in a sensory and experimental prehistory ... through the complicated life of Moah 45,000 years ago. A huge bet!

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