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Les hommes de l'ombre

  • TV Series
  • 2012–20162012–2016
  • TV-PGTV-PG
  • 52m
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7.5/10
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Nathalie Baye, Grégory Fitoussi, and Bruno Wolkowitch in Les hommes de l'ombre (2012)
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After the french president is killed by an assassin, a political intrigue about the following campaign begins. The best friend of the dead president and his spindoctor installs the socialmin... Read allAfter the french president is killed by an assassin, a political intrigue about the following campaign begins. The best friend of the dead president and his spindoctor installs the socialminister as a candidate against the incumbent premier-minister.After the french president is killed by an assassin, a political intrigue about the following campaign begins. The best friend of the dead president and his spindoctor installs the socialminister as a candidate against the incumbent premier-minister.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
773
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  • Creators
    • Emmanuel Daucé
    • Charline de Lépine
    • Dan Franck
  • Stars
    • Bruno Wolkowitch
    • Grégory Fitoussi
    • Philippe Magnan
  • Creators
    • Emmanuel Daucé
    • Charline de Lépine
    • Dan Franck
  • Stars
    • Bruno Wolkowitch
    • Grégory Fitoussi
    • Philippe Magnan
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    • 4User reviews
    • 3Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win & 5 nominations

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    Bruno Wolkowitch
    Bruno Wolkowitch
    • Simon Kapita
    Grégory Fitoussi
    Grégory Fitoussi
    • Ludovic Desmeuze
    Philippe Magnan
    Philippe Magnan
    • Philippe Deleuvre
    Yves Pignot
    • Robert Palissy
    Nicolas Marié
    Nicolas Marié
    • Alain Marjorie…
    Marianne Fabbro
    • Juliette…
    Carole Bouquet
    Carole Bouquet
    • Élisabeth Marjorie
    Emmanuelle Bach
    • Appoline Vremler
    Élisabeth Commelin
    • Sonia
    Nicolas Bridet
    • Lionel…
    Nathalie Baye
    Nathalie Baye
    • Anne Visage
    Aure Atika
    Aure Atika
    • Gabrielle Tackichieff
    Valérie Karsenti
    • Appoline Vremler
    Rachida Brakni
    Rachida Brakni
    • Clémence Parodi
    Laurent Lucas
    Laurent Lucas
    • Maxime Beaugendre
    Clémentine Poidatz
    Clémentine Poidatz
    • Valentine
    Philippe Hérisson
    • Guénelon
    Olivier Rabourdin
    Olivier Rabourdin
    • Benoît Hussan
    • Creators
      • Emmanuel Daucé
      • Charline de Lépine
      • Dan Franck
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      Les Hommes de l'ombre was released in English speaking countries as "Spin".
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    10/10
    Fantastic French political thriller series, breath-taking
    This is a review of Seasons 1, 2, and 3. (No further season seems to be planned.) This series is France's answer to America's HOUSE OF CARDS (2013, still ongoing) and Denmark's BORGEN (2010-2013, see my review). Three countries now have produced magnificent series set in their nations' main political residences or parliaments showing the vicious back-stabbing and intrigues of leading politicians scheming for power, which confirms all that we ever feared about such people. (It is not impossible that HOUSE OF CARDS boosted the Trump vote, due to Robin Wright's icy and terrifying portrayal of a First Lady thought by some to resemble very closely a certain someone.) In this wonderful series, every moment of which is gripping, the main character is a spin doctor named Simon Kapita, played by the mesmerising Bruno Wolkowitch. He conveys a wide range of every kind of emotion and is a solid lead for the series. Season One is devoted to the presidential campaign of Anne Visage, played by Nathalie Baye. She disappears after Season One and from then on the series is dominated an overwhelmingly brilliant performance, perhaps the best of her career, by Carole Bouquet, as First Lady Elizabeth Marjorie. She plays a wild, unstable bipolar personality, and Bouquet therefore has great fun playing twelve personalities at once, all of them dangerous and unpredictable. It is a tour de force. When she was younger, she longed to play the wicked Countess Tarnowska, and here she got to go one better, and play a human kaleidoscope who could be a shrieking nightmare one moment and be 'sugar and spice and everything nice' the next moment. One never knows in the series whether she is going to smile enchantingly and make cooing noises or scowl, frown, and scream, and start throwing things. No expense seems to have been spared for this spectacular series, and access seems to have been granted at the Elysée and the Matignon, as well as other key political buildings. Certainly the exteriors are real, and the interiors are so convincing that it is difficult to believe that they are sets. There are some discontinuities in the series, in that one key character disappears after Season Two without trace, never to reappear, while there are a few cast changes between seasons of other key characters. Everyone is superb, and the direction is inspired. There is not a dull moment in the entire 18 episodes of this sensational political drama. The most wicked character in the series, worse even than the politicians, is the rival spin doctor to Kapita, Ludovic Desmeuze, played with intense cunning and malice by Grégory Fitoussi, which is the precise opposite of the 'nice guy' character whom he played I the series SPIRAL (ENGRENAGES, 2005-2014, see my review). It is a shock to see Fitoussi scheming and being evil, but then that is acting for you. One of the finest performances in the series is by the dour and proper Philippe Magnan as Philippe Deleuvre, a man capable of the cleverest and most devious plots, but always true to a strange inner morality. He adds a needed bass note to the series, like adding a row of bass fiddles exuding a prolonged doleful hum. (He played Mitterand in FAREWELL, 2009.) President Marjorie is magnificently played by Nicolas Marié, whose range of emotions is also very broad, and who carries a lead role with the ease of a true pro. Sophie-Charlotte Husson plays the most viciously scheming and ruthless politician of them all, and she is really scary. In the middle of having sex with Fitoussi she gasps not with ecstasy but with the question of does he sees her as President. That scene is a marvellous dark and wicked satire. Rachida Brakni is dutifully scheming while appearing to be loving, and she is capable of anything. In fact, most of the characters are capable of anything except for Kapita, who is a good guy surrounded by monsters. There is a huge amount of human tragedy and desperation in this series, and even though those who get crushed deserved their fate, the spectacle of their destruction is terrible. There were three directors for this series, one for each season. All were excellent. There were no less than ten writers, one of whom, Charlene de LépIne, was an executive producer of SPIRAL (ENGRENAGES). This series gathered together much of the best talent in France to produce a major series of relentless intensity and fascination, and certain to be of widespread international interest.
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    • Release date
      • January 25, 2012 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Language
      • French
    • Also known as
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    • Production companies
      • Macondo
      • Tetra Media Fiction
      • France Télévisions
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