The “6 X Confiné.es” series on Canal + recalls the good and bad memories of confinement (were there any good ones?) -

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  • The

    6 X Confiné.es series

    , six 20-minute episodes, is offered Monday evening on Canal + and available on MyCanal.

  • It features different confinement situations and as many magnifying effects on issues already present in society.

  • The films are signed by little-known authors, with different personalities and universes, with the participation of a 6-star cast.

The first confinement is just a year old (happy birthday, sic), and yet it has already inspired several fictions, from the horror film on Zoom

Host

to the Hollywood housekeeping scene

Malcolm & Marie

through the giant aperitif

Connected

on Prime Video or a special episode of the

Plan Coeur

series

.

Canal + offers Monday evening a new original creation, an anthology of six 20-minute films on the subject, and more precisely around the question 

"What happens inside when nothing is happening outside?"

In apartments, in houses, in people's minds.

"

To answer it, the channel called on six authors, with different personalities and universes, for which it is most often a first achievement.

As it was for the French and French women their first confinement.

Masculinity, couple crisis… Themes of confined spaces and of society

In

Scorpex

by music video director Bertrand de Langeron, Vincent Cassel (oh yes the casting is there) plays a DJ in the midst of a midlife crisis, who invites a rising musician and his girlfriend to spend confinement with him .

The opportunity to question "the issues raised by the profession of DJ, well anchored in this era of representation, explains the author in the press kit, as well as" the look at masculinity and the gap between two generations of men .

"

The love of the game

of Pierre Maillard brings together William Lebghil and Laura Felpin in a large apartment, where they will experience the confinement in an opposite way, he thoroughly into video games, she with the news of a pregnancy.

For all tastes and sensibilities

It quickly becomes obvious that these short films deal less with confinement in itself, than with the magnifying effect it can have on themes already present in society.

Like the

Flawless

Said Belktibia with Jeremy Ferrari unrecognizable on a family of thieves "technical unemployment" and must therefore find other sources of profit ... like gold teeth of the inhabitants of the city?

The characteristic of a film with sketches is that there is something for all tastes and sensitivities, an observation which corresponds well to how each and every one was able to live this confinement.

Le Figaro

, for example, likes very much "the very dark farce"

The art of living

by Antoine de Bary, where Gilbert Melki is embedded in a bourgeois family, while

Première

prefers "the most divisive and the least kind"

Until Saint-Molart

with Ludivine Sagnier, darling of Parisian fashion who returns to her modest family and discovers that she was raped as a child.

Except that she doesn't remember it.

On a subject that could not be more serious and topical, the director Alice Moitié offers a devious comedy on social ascension, on the notion of trauma and "on the status of victim and what it represents today," comments she does.

Can we be "proud" of being a victim, and isn't it counterproductive to make it an obsession, whether positive or negative?

I ask these questions, adding nuance as much as possible: in tone, funny and sordid.

In form, raw, realistic, but colorful and alive.

Even confined, fiction sheds light on reality.

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