Pauline Serieys and Sami Outalbali in the series “The Great ones”. – FINGERPRINT
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A back to school not quite like the others. Hugo, Boogie, Ilyes, April, and the new GM come in third, and finally, Great of the college. Created by Benjamin Parent and Joris Morio (This is not a film of cow-boy), both joined by Victor Rodenbach (season 2 of Tree, The Quepa on Vilni !) and Vianney Lebasque (The Little Princes), the new original series OCS is entered in the court of the great the Festival of the fiction TV of La Rochelle, winning three awards : Best series of 26-minute, Award promising young female Adami for Adele Wisme and Price of the junior high school in Charente-Maritime. Focus on the throes of adolescence this Thursday at 20h40 sur OCS City.

The year of all the possible

” We wanted to describe this micro-society that is the inside of a college, ” says Vianney Lebasque, who also wrote the screenplay. One thinks of the british series Skins. “The idea was to put images to this mood, melancholy, this euphoria is tinged with bitterness that one feels when one is a teenager,” he continued. In short, Welcome to the awkward age. “We have made memories, personal things in the scenario. The means of communication have changed, but the fundamental problems of adolescence does not change, this is a series pretty timeless, ” notes the co-writer and director.

” This year is all possible, ” says the principal, incarnate parLaurent Boat, to the students. “12 % of you will experience their first sexual intercourse “, he promises again in his speech of September. What put the pressure on the trio of Beautiful Kids of the band formed by Boogie, hector, Hugo, the old large and Ilyes, the basketball player, dumb as April, which would seem to leave Diabolo Menthe if it had not parents of gay, secretly loves. A shared secret with the new arrival to the red hair, MJ, a teenager tortured and rebellious as in the films of Gus Van Sant.

the premise of the adult life

the first shoots at the joints smoked on the roof, between conflicting existential and disasters surface, the series sounds fair. “We have tried to put us at the height of the characters,” says Vianney Lebasque. The language is worked with the actors during rehearsals. “If they feel less a word or a reply, they tell us. The exchanges with them are important “, explains the director. The realism also holds for the scenery, the series was filmed in a real high school Tours, designing costumes, and accessories. “The art direction overall season 1 was a little worn out. “

The whole thing is served by a cast impeccable, both in the staff room and classroom. “I saw Adele, Wisme drink a coffee, and I said to myself : “that is MJ”. I did not know that fifteen minutes later, I had an appointment with her for audition ! “says Vianney Lebasque. If they are young, the actors are already Large : Gregory Montana (Boogie) has already given the reply to Isabelle Huppert in The future of Mia Hansen-Love, Theophilus Bucket (Hugo) has made his debut in The New war of the buttons, Sami Outalbali has played in The Tuches, Pauline Serieys (April) she started her career at 7 years alongside Valérie Lemercier in Palais-Royal. The young actors promising that it will next year on the photo of class, the season 2 is being shot !

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