Frédéric Pierrot is Philippe Dayan and Carole Bouquet is Esther in the series “En Thérapie” by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.
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Uploaded last Thursday on Arte.tv,
In therapy
already has 3.2 million videos viewed.
This series features the sessions, the day after the attacks of November 13 in real time, of a psychoanalyst who receives four days during a different patient, before Friday, to go himself to his therapist.
This closed door also stages “the presence”, according to Carole Bouquet, which we sorely miss in this period of pandemic.
A success even before its broadcast!
Uploaded last Thursday on Arte.tv,
In therapy
already has 3.2 million videos viewed.
This French remake of the Israeli series
BeTipul
initiated by Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache obeys the simple principle of the original format: it stages the real-time sessions of a psychoanalyst who receives four days during a different patient in his Haussmannian apartment. and cozy in the 11th arrondissement, before going to his therapist's office on Friday.
Each episode therefore comes down to a face-to-face meeting between two actors in a unique place.
Why, despite its austere device,
In therapy
, launched this Thursday on Arte at 8:55 pm, deeply touches and holds the viewer in suspense?
To stage this in camera, Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache, Mathieu Vadepied, Nicolas Pariser and Pierre Salvadori, the directors of the 35 episodes of
In therapy
, mainly use the field-against-field, that is to say the basics of film language. .
“In the cinema, we spend our time imagining sets, movement, trying not to say too much, but to show.
There, it is the reverse, it must be said without showing in this long time that the episodes represent ”, concedes Eric Toledano.
"Filming what is most modest about us"
And it is precisely this concept centered on “speaking and listening” which gives all its power to the series.
Putting your camera in a psychoanalyst's office, "is filming what is most modest about us, that is to say the way we have to build ourselves, to lie to ourselves", explains Eric Toledano .
For those who have already undergone therapy, the series will bring back memories, for those who have never had to do with analytical work, it will allow them to "understand the issue and the mechanisms", believes Eric Toledano .
“This is not an ode to psychoanalysis, but a series that shows a psychoanalyst in crisis, who asks himself questions about his practice, and who himself takes the events as a big questioning of what 'he is and how he works,' he adds.
“And you, where were you at the time of the attacks?
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A concept with success already proven in the many adaptations of BeTipul around the world.
Where the French version takes on yet another dimension is because it inscribes its characters in a very particular moment, the day after the attacks of November 13th.
A common anchor point for all French people.
"November 13th is like September 11th, everyone can tell where he was," says Eric Toledano.
“We wanted to immediately grab the viewer: 'and you, where were you at the time of the attacks and how did you feel?'
», Replies Olivier Nakache.
In the aftermath of the attacks therefore, Doctor Dayan (Frédéric Pierrot) receives in turn a surgeon (Mélanie Thierry), an agent of the BRI (Reda Kateb), a couple in crisis (Pio Marmai and Clémence Poesy) and a fragile teenager. (Celeste Brunnquell).
And he resumes, after twelve years of hiatus, his own therapy with Esther, his psychiatrist and long-time friend (Carole Bouquet).
In therapy
puts into analysis a French society which "heals its wounds", according to Olivier Nakache.
While the psychoanalytic treatment is based on the transfer between the analysand and the psychoanalyst, France on the couch of the series is based solely on the incarnation and the play of the actors.
"Something that makes it really become us"
The series is based on a device "very new for everyone", indicates the artistic director and director Mathieu Vadepied.
Each of the 35 episodes was shot in two days.
A staging that involves long takes.
““ The text has taken a great place.
There is something close to the theater, ”underlines the overwhelming Reda Kateb.
"With the mass of text that there was to learn, we think about it all the time, in the street, in the shower ... There is necessarily something that makes it really becomes us", explains the revelation Céleste Brunnquell.
“It's madness!
», Adds the confirmed Carole Bouquet.
“It's very disturbing when you listen attentively to what is said by the other, and what you are going through.
It's a dialogue that is very involving, ”insists the impeccable Frédéric Pierrot.
And to continue: “It is a work which is proposed on the word, the language and the simplicity of the physical presence.
It comes down to that ”.
This series, based on the words of the analysands and the listening of the psychoanalyst, brings the viewer as never before into the intimacy of the characters, but also of the actors.
On the set, "we had giggles and slips", confides Frédéric Pierrot.
“There was something about us, very personal, that escaped us with a text extremely written in an extremely constrained framework,” says Carole Bouquet.
Long takes imply "moments of confusion", according to Eric Toledano, which question "the border between fiction and reality".
"This deprivation of the other brings up a lot of fragility"
In therapy
thus staged "what we lack at the moment," estimates Carole Bouquet.
The presence.
There is physically the presence of one and the other.
This distance which is imposed on us by the pandemic, we talk about it all the time in
In therapy.
"
In therapy
shows "how important face-to-face meetings are," says Frédéric Pierrot.
“This deprivation of the other, of proximity, brings up a great deal of fragility and anxiety in everyone, regardless of the events of the Bataclan.
At the moment, it's particularly relevant, ”summarizes Carole Bouquet.
If
In therapy
therefore touches the spectators so deeply, it is because it stages what we are terribly lacking at the moment, the simplicity of a true human bond.
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