SERIELAND INTERVIEW - Throughout the month of June, on the occasion of the ten years of the Fontainebleau "Série-series" meetings, SERIELAND invites you to dive back into the French fictions that have marked the decade.

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In 2005, a new kind of French detective series landed on Canal +.

For 15 years, "Engrenages" has dissected the judicial and police system with great realism.

Frédéric Jardin directed the last two episodes.

How to be ultra realistic while engaging the public?

Has the series changed her perception of the police?

In this episode, the director answers Eva Roque's microphone.

He also unveils his next projects including a series on Carlos Ghosn.

16 years ago, the arrival of

Engrenages

, on Canal +, renews the genre of the detective series.

Far from heroic arrests and a Manichean treatment of court cases,

Engrenages

takes a realistic look at the functioning of the police and the judiciary.

For 8 seasons, viewers followed the cross-surveys of Captain Laure Berthaud, Lieutenants Gilles Escoffier and Luc Fromentin and Commissioner Vincent Brémont.

But also the cases of judge François Roban and lawyers Pierre Clément and Joséphine Karlsson.

Shadowing, arrests and hearings are handled with precision, acuity and rigor.

A hyper realism which has conquered the public beyond the borders.

Gears

has also been exported to dozens of countries.

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We owe this success in particular to the many directors who have followed one another on the set.

One of them, Frédéric Jardin, directed several of the 86 episodes, including the last two.

They are marked by an impressive robbery scene in which the director has managed to transcribe all the tension that inhabits the characters.

This is not the only fiction in which he is interested in the police environment, Frédéric Jardin has also directed episodes of the

Braquo

series

by Olivier Marchal. 

He has just finished,

Alger Confidential

, a mini-series for Arte and is also working on a new project on the Carlos Ghosn affair. 

In SERIELAND, the podcast of Europe 1 Studio by those who love series and make them, the director gives himself over to the microphone of Eva Roque.

How did he shoot this memorable heist sequence?

Is he fascinated by the world of the police?

What are his future projects?

In this interview Frédéric Jardin looks at the underside of the shootings of

Engrenages

. 

Engrenages, 8 seasons, 86 episodes of about 50 minutes, to see on MyCanal. 

Throughout the month of June, on the occasion of the ten years of the Fontainebleau "Série Séries" meetings, discover 10 interviews with the creators of the series that have marked this decade.

The SERIELAND team

Author and presentation: Eva Roque

Director: Christophe Pierrot

Editorial project manager: Timothée Magot 

Distribution and editing: Clémence Olivier with Salomé Journo

Preparation: Magali Butault