Season 2 of "6:30 p.m." plays the game of love and the mirror wonderfully

• Season 2 at

  6:30 p.m.

  , with a special mention at Séries Mania and available on Arte.tv.

• In season 1,

  6:30 p.m.

  is the time at which Eric and Melissa (Nicolas Grandhomme and Pauline Etienne), two colleagues, leave the office every evening to reach the same bus stop.

• In season 2,

  6:30 p.m.

  is the name of the series filmed by the actors Arnaud and Judith (Nicolas Grandhomme and Pauline Etienne, again) who play Eric and Mélissa...

An ingenious twist!

In season 1,

is the time at which Eric and Melissa (Nicolas Grandhomme and Pauline Etienne), two colleagues, leave the office every evening to reach the same bus stop.

In season 2,

, this is the name of the series filmed by the actors Arnaud and Judith (Nicolas Grandhomme and Pauline Etienne, again) who play Eric and Mélissa... These two nesting seasons, produced and written by the duo Maxime Chamoux and Sylvain Gouverneur, are available on Arte.tv.

How do season 1 and season 2, crowned with a special mention by the short format competition jury at the last Series Mania festival in Lille, echo each other?

For those who are not (yet!) familiar with

, the 22 episodes, 5 to 7 minutes each, shot in sequence, delicately followed the wanderings, the exchanges, first trivial, then more personal … From these moments suspended “neither at work, nor at home”, of this “grey zone” as summed up by director and screenwriter Maxime Chamoux, a delicate and subtle marivaudage was born.

“This bias of the sequence shot makes it possible to give importance to the unsaid, to the silences, and to go against a certain drift of the time which wants to accelerate everything.

We wanted to spend some time with the characters, at their own pace”, comments Maxime Chamoux.

Result ?

A little gem of finesse, tenderness and humor.

"The 6:30 p.m. multiverse"

Season 2 opens with familiar images, those of the first episode of the first season... "The basic idea of ​​the first episode was to make believe that we had exactly the same series which began, to pass very quickly, by a perch in the field, a make-up artist who comes to do touch-ups, in a different world,” explains Sylvain Gouverneur.

Games of love and mirrors in

, Nicolas Grandhomme and Pauline Etienne play Arnaud and Judith, the actors who play Eric and Mélissa in the

series .

“I am Nicolas Grandhomme who plays an actor called Arnaud, who plays the role of Eric.

multiverse

!

laughs Nicolas Grandhomme.

There is no question here of pouring into an ode to the upside of the decor of audiovisual creation.

“As in season 1, what we wanted was to show people at work.

There, it turns out that the characters are actors and that they work on a shoot, ”insists Maxime Chamoux.

“A prosaically human daily life”

“What interests us are the little everyday things.

Whether you're an actor on a series or working in an office, whatever job you do, you're always brought back to a prosaically human daily life: relationships with colleagues you like or not too much, the food which is disgusting, the fact of having slept badly and a form of obligation to go to work.

Even if you love your job, there are days when you don't want to go,” adds Sylvain Gouverneur.

Arnaud and Judith play Eric and Mélissa in the

series , two office colleagues seeing their feelings blossom, a paradox for our two heroes, whose couple is struggling.

“We found this little twist that allowed us to tell a story a bit like a photo negative.

In season 1, we have a couple that gets closer, in season 2, a couple that moves away, ”continues Sylvain Gouverneur.

"The first season is a pretty classic romantic comedy where you wonder, 'Are these two going to end up together?'

There it is, "How are these two going to break up?"

“, abounds Maxime Chamoux.

Always filmed in a sequence shot, the episodes thus mischievously play on symmetry.

If this season 2 begins with images of the first episode of season 1, it also ends by evoking the last episode of the first season.

“We wanted to give a form of density to this moment of rupture, which often happens in fiction as a final sanction.

We wanted to show that we could separate without hating each other, that everything was more nuanced, ”explains Maxime Chamoux.

The duo formed by Maxime Chamoux and Sylvain Gouverneur appreciate the constraints: “Where, in season 1, there was the set, the sequence shot, the two actors, in season 2, there was: keeping these two actors and the sets , and add a turn of the nut consisting in seeking how to tell something surprising, different and, at the same time, very coherent”, underlines Sylvain Gouverneur.

Result ?

A season 2 tinged with melancholy, humor, whose virtuosity has fortunately not tarnished humanity.

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