Toronto-bowed “Savages,” the kinetic, taut political thriller from Vivendi’s Canal Plus, imagines a French Obama – Idder Chaouch, of Algerian descent, played by a stately Roschdy Zem – …
,” the kinetic, taut political thriller from Vivendi’s Canal Plus, imagines a French Obama – Idder Chaouch, of Algerian descent, played by a stately Roschdy Zem – poised in Paris to rule France as its first Maghrebi president.Yet, created and co-written by novelist Sabri Louatah and cineast, who also directs, the six-part limited series kicks off, in a total declaration of intentions, 250 miles south in the dowdy city of Saint-Étienne.
A Canal Plus Création Originale, produced by Marco Cherqui and Joey Faré, it also adapts the much-championed four-novel series “Savages,” from Louatah, published over 2012-14, “a modern French epic,” proclaim Véra Peltekian and Fabrice de la Patellière, Canal Plus directors of French fiction and international co-production. “From the get-go, we were struck by its addictive force and the power of its characters,” they add.
“It’s much more a family story,” Louatah adds: “One could say that a nation such as France is a bit of a family in itself. It’s a collection of families. It has family secrets, it has race, and race is a family secret in France, it’s a thing people never talk about but it’s everywhere around us.” In an age where there is so much competition for audience attention, Zlotowski and Louatah were very conscious of the need to grab that, and keep it, create a compelling fiction, Louatah recognizes. That meant retooling his 1,676-page Saint-Étienne quartet, principally drawing on the first tome, “The Wedding.”
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