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Dealer

is a 10-episode Netflix series that can be viewed in less than two hours.

How is this 'miracle' possible?

Thanks to

chapters that range between 8 and 15 minutes

.

Although what makes this

French Netflix production

really special

is its way of telling the story.

Using the

resource of false found footage

(better known as

found-footage

), those responsible (including Nicolas Peufaillit, scriptwriter of

A Prophet

) tell the odyssey that two filmmakers go through when they agree to record a rapper for a video clip in a

depressed Marseille neighborhood

.

On the left, the rapper who should appear in a video clip.

The apparently simple task becomes more and more complicated if we take into account two factors: the singer is related to groups that deal

with drugs

and hostilities between these gang members have been unleashed.

ACTION WITHOUT TRUCE

A few minutes into the first chapter of

Dealer

we see a

shooting

.

But there is much more:

robberies, kidnappings, chases

by car, motorcycle or on foot, mass escapes when the police appear ...

Image of the 'Dealer' sign.

Moments of great tension that are recorded, according to this fiction, with the

different cameras

used by the leading artists of the story.

In this way, the intention of those responsible for this fiction is to

make the viewer believe that he is living everything up close.

THE RAPPER;

THE DIRECTOR AND HIS CAMERA

The

fake camera

that records the images rarely appears, but those who do appear a lot are Franck (

Sébastien Houbani

), the video clip director who does not hide his fear as the episodes progress, and Tony (

Abdramane Diakité

), a

rapper

surrounded by the worst companies. possible that he says he knows his neighborhood well.

An image from the filming of this fiction in a neighborhood of Marseille.

A

trio of protagonists

to which we must add an army of young secondary players (most of whom are played by actors without previous experience) who flee every time the police approach the area.

Although, if there is a character that draws attention, it is that of a

sensible adult (perhaps the only one in the series) who complains

about the destruction caused by drugs.

A RESOURCE OF HORROR CINEMA

Ange Basterga and Nicolas Lopez

, the creators of the series, have used a common resource in horror films such as

The Blair Witch Project

,

Paranormal Activity

or

The Visit,

but also in Spain with

REC

or

The Cave

.

Bringing the viewer closer to scenes that seem real thanks to shaky pulse cameras pays off.

And, as

Dealer

proves

,

it is not very common to see it in series or movies that are not horror.

Although approaching gang members and drug traffickers who threaten themselves with death has its curiosity.

Despite the fact that so many dialogues between one action scene and another cause a

drop in revolutions

in a proposal that plays to make us suffer.

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