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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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