The 61st edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival opens its doors this Friday until June 21.
The Principality of Monaco will notably welcome Jean Reno, Jane Seymour, Danny Glover, JoeyStarr and Stéphane Plaza on this occasion.
In the running, no less than 22 programs from 12 countries.
It will be less hot in Monte-Carlo in the coming days than north of the Loire, but escaping the heat wave is obviously not the only reason to take a trip to the Rock!
The 61st edition of the Monte-Carlo Television Festival opens its doors this Friday until June 21.
Five good reasons to attend the event.
Full of stars on the red carpet
After two years of health crisis, international stars are back at the Grimaldi Forum… Many icons of the small screen are expected on the red carpet, such as Neal McDonough (
Desperate Housewives, Arrow, Legends of Tomorrow, The Flash, Suits)
, Jason Priestley (
Beverly Hills, Private Eyes, Call Me Fitz)
, Jane Seymour (
Doctor Quinn, Doctor Woman
), Danny Glover (
Lethal Weapon
), Ron Perlman (
Sons of Anarchy
), Stepfanie Kramer (
Rick Hunter
), Darko Peric (
The Casa de Papel
) or even Melissa Sue Anderson (
The Little House on the prairie
).
The youngest spectators will be delighted by the presence of two of France's most famous YouTubers, Inoxtag and Michou, who will be accompanied by dancer and choreographer Elsa Bois.
Samy Naceri, Chantal Ladesou, Taylor Kinney, JoeyStarr and Cut Killer, the most famous of real estate agents Stéphane Plaza and journalist Hugo Clément will also make a visit to the Grimaldi Forum.
Full of series on the big screen
The Monte-Carlo Television Festival allows you to discover new series in the presence of celebrities.
Matthew Fox (
Lost
) and Joanne Froggatt (
Downton Abbey ) will headline the opening night screening of their new series,
Last Night
, in the world premiere
.
A promising MGM program that explores the consequences of a potential oil supply collapse.
David Hasselhoff (
Alert to Malibu, K2000)
will come to present his new series, entitled
Ze Network,
in which he embodies his own role.
The selection also includes
The Terminal List
, an Amazon Prime Video series, starring Chris Pratt, based on the novel of the same name by Jack Carr,
The Offer
, a miniseries by Michael Tolkin for Paramount +, which chronicles the gestation and production of the film
The Godfather
by Francis Ford Coppola.
Also up for Golden Nymphs in the fiction category is
The Tourist,
a British miniseries that stars Jamie Dornan as a car crash victim who wakes up in hospital with amnesia.
A highly anticipated fiction, broadcast on France 2 this Monday at 9:10 p.m.
Jean Reno will star in two dramas:
A Private Affair
, a Spanish detective comedy for Amazon Prime Video that takes place in Galicia in the 1940s, and in the adaptation of Marc Levy's bestseller,
All those things that we did not say.
A preview of the highly anticipated adaptation of Guillaume Musso's novel
La Jeune Fille et la Nuit
will be presented exclusively.
The festival also hosts
Trom
, the very first drama series from the Faroe Islands, which follows a journalist's investigation into the disappearance of an animal rights activist and environmentalist, and
Made in Oslo
, a Norwegian series featuring a gynecologist ready to do anything to get pregnant.
Full of dedications and meetings
The Monte-Carlo Television Festival offers signing sessions with series stars (reservation on the event website).
The opportunity to meet the heroes of the successful French daily series (
Tomorrow belongs to us, Here everything begins, Plus belle la vie, Un si grand soleil, Scenes of households, In family
), but also of the American soap
Les
Feux de l' love
, and many more.
Conferences entitled “Behind The Scenes” also allow the public to interact with the talents present.
Full of reports and documentaries
The Monte-Carlo Television Festival also offers the opportunity to see or re-watch the best documentaries and reports from the past year.
In the running in the documentary and news category, two French works,
China: The Uyghur Tragedy
and the report from Complément d'Enquête, "Zelensky: The Clown who became a warlord".
Also worth mentioning is
Lucy and Desi
, the Amazon Prime Video documentary, directed by Amy Poehler, which looks back on the journey of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and how their sitcom
I Love Lucy
revolutionized Hollywood.
Out of competition, the documentary
Souffles de vie
will highlight the issues of the impact of man on a marine environment as fragile as that of the Mediterranean, and on cetaceans in particular.
Full of crowned heads
Created in 1961 by Prince Rainier III, in homage to his wife Princess Grace, the festival is organized under the High Patronage of His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco.
The latter speaks at the opening and closing ceremony of the festival, and it is not uncommon for him to appear on the red carpet during a screening.
After several days of isolation due to Covid-19, Charlène of Monaco reappeared this Thursday alongside her husband Albert of Monaco, on the balcony of the prince's palace.
It is very likely that she will also make one or more appearances at the Grimaldi forum.
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