Anthracite Review 2024 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
In 1994, the collective suicide of a sect based in a small village in the Alps hit the headlines… 30 years later, the murder of a woman murdered according to the rituals of the strange community sets the balance ablaze. precarious found by the inhabitants.
The ideal scapegoat, Jaro Gatsi, a young delinquent who came to the mountains to get his life back on track, quickly finds himself accused of the murder. Determined to prove his innocence, he receives unexpected help from Ida, an eccentric and ultra-connected geek who is looking for her missing father…
They will quickly understand that their involvement in this affair owes nothing to chance, and that the answers they seek are rooted in the secrets of their own past…
Created by Fanny Robert and Maxime Berthemy , a duo who notably worked on Profilage and Aim for the Heart , Anthracite: The Mystery of the Ecrins Sect is carried by Noémie Schmidt , an actress seen in Versailles and Paris est à nous .
She plays opposite Hatik , a rapper turned actor that series fans were able to see in the first season of Validé on Canal+. Facing them, Netflix subscribers will be able to find Camille Lou , an actress seen in Les Combattantes , Le Bazar de la Charité or Je te Promets , as well as Nicolas Godart (Iris et les hommes).
This quartet of investigators is helped in their quest for truth by Raphaël Ferret (Aim for the Heart). The leader of the sect is played by the hypnotizing Stefano Cassetti (Zone Blanche, Into The Night) while Jean-Marc Barr plays a journalist who investigated the sect in 1994.
Kad Merad plays Claude, the uncle of the character played by Hatik. On the production side, it was Julius Berg (A Man of Honor, The Forest) who took care of highlighting the snowy landscapes of the mountain ranges.
A few weeks after the release of Furies , Netflix continues its momentum and offers a new French series. The platform, however, is making a major change in register, far from fast-paced action series or offbeat comedies, since it is the detective genre that it is tackling with Anthracite: The Mystery of the Sect of the Boxes .
And who better to write the scenarios than Fanny Robert and Maxime Berthemy, a duo of screenwriters already behind Profilage, one of TF1’s flagship fictions? They take us here to a small village in the Alps, scene of a collective suicide by the Écrins sect 30 years earlier.
Still haunted by this event, the inhabitants try to rebuild their lives. But a new murder, carried out according to the rituals of the sect, will undermine this precarious balance. Jaro, an ex-convict returned to his native village who will find himself accused of the crime, will join forces with Ida, an eccentric geek looking for her missing father, in order to prove his innocence.
But throughout their investigation, they will discover many secrets that they would have preferred to keep buried… What if their presence in the small mountain town was not due to chance?
With its many mysteries and false leads, Anthracite is a complex and gripping series that keeps us in suspense until the final revelation. A complexity which is, however, far from being a fault, the two screenwriters brilliantly succeeding in not losing viewers throughout the numerous revelations which mark the 6 episodes of the mini-series.
If Anthracite is based on a mainly dramatic register, police thriller obliges, Fanny Robert and Maxime Berthemy manage to sprinkle their scenarios with small touches of humor thanks in particular to the character of Ida, an antisocial young woman brilliantly played by Noémie Schmidt, whose personality solar and exuberant contrasts with the taciturn and solitary attitude of Jaro, her companion in misfortune.
One of the strong points of Anthracite lies in its casting. The four main actors share an undeniable alchemy which gives this quartet of mismatched investigators a flawless realism, and allows us to become attached to these multifaceted characters, who evolve in grandiose landscapes.
Julius Berg, the director, brilliantly succeeds in sublimating the snow-capped mountains of the Alps, thus making these majestic settings a character in their own right. With its 6 thrilling episodes, Anthracite: The Mystery of the Sect of the Boxes stands out as the French Netflix series not to be missed this spring!
