Paris (AFP)
"To displease is a risk to be taken": Eric Rochant, the creator of the successful series "The Bureau of legends", defended the season 5 finale on Wednesday, produced at his request by filmmaker Jacques Audiard and strongly criticized by some fans.
"I did not ask Audiard to continue the series but to endorse it in order to end it. Its epilogue is a strong artistic gesture that breaks the narrative logic. Confusing, like any real artistic gesture. Strong like everything that does Audiard ", he reacted on Twitter after two days of controversy.
"A series can also be the place for unprecedented creative experiences. To displease is a risk to be taken when one is creating," he added, adding that "it does not deserve the anger" of the fans.
Since the broadcast Monday evening on Canal + of the two episodes directed by Jacques Audiard, Internet users have expressed their deep disappointment, some do not hesitate to ask for another end to this season or to describe the director as "A prophet" as "executioner of legends ".
Acclaimed series on the spy scene, sold in more than 100 countries and praised by the DGSE itself for its realism, "The Bureau of legends" follows, on several grounds, the intrigue of a handful of agents evolving undercover and immersed abroad, including a certain Malotru played by Mathieu Kassovitz.
Wishing to leave the ship, Eric Rochant had asked Jacques Audiard to take over for the last two episodes, giving him carte blanche ... and the right to life and death over the characters.
If he will no longer participate in the writing of the series, he will remain his producer and already has someone "with a strong universe" in mind to replace him. And it will not be Jacques Audiard, he has already warned.
From "Soprano" to "Game of Thrones", via "Lost" or "Mad Men", the history of the series is punctuated by end of seasons causing immense disappointment among fans, even anger.
© 2020 AFP