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 marked the decade .//

When it was released at the end of January, "In therapy" created a stir on Arte.tv. In one month, the Arte platform recorded 40 million views for the first series of the duo of directors and producers Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache. The fiction, adapted from an Israeli series, plunges us into the intimacy of the sessions of a Parisian psychoanalyst in the aftermath of the November 2015 attacks. In this new episode, Eva Roque receives the screenwriter and writing director Vincent Poymiro. What are his favorite scenes? How to adapt a series already known internationally? He answers these questions, reveals his writing work and tells about the construction of the characters in the series. 

Eric Toledano and Olivier Nakache are definitely subscribers to success. After the films

Intouchables

,

Le Sens de la fêt

e and

Hors Normes

, it is with a series,

In therapy

, that they created the event at the beginning of the year 2021. It's simple, fiction is the most viewed in the history of Arte.

It takes place in the intimate camera of the office of psychoanalyst Philippe Dayan.

In front of him, a cop traumatized by the Bataclan attacks, a somewhat lost surgeon, a couple in crisis and a teenage girl who feels bad about herself.

The success of the series is due in particular to the quality of the interpretation of the actors.

In the cast we find Frédéric Pierrot, Pio Marmai, Clémence Poesy, Céleste Brunnquell, Mélanie Thierry, Reda Kateb and Carole Bouquet. 

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The work of writing and adaptation also have a lot to do with it.

Screenwriters David Elkaïm and Vincent Poymiro have shown daring and talent to adapt a series already widely known internationally,

Be Tipul

by Israeli director Hagai Levi. 

In SERIELAND, the Europe 1 Studio podcast by those who love series and make them, Vincent Poymiro confides in Eva Roque's microphone.

How does he explain the success of

In therapy

?

How did the evolution of distribution methods and the offer on platforms boost the series?

Why was the character of the policeman, played by Reda Kateb, the most important to adapt?

The screenwriter answers these questions, reveals his future projects and enlightens us on his profession.  

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