Creative: Xavier Giannoli
Address: Xavier Giannoli and Frédéric Planchon
Distribution: Vincent Lindon, Ramzy Bedia, Niels Schneider
Country: France
Duration: 50 minutes approx. (6 episodes)
Year: 2023
Gender: dramatic tension
Premiere: January 30, 2024 (Movie)
★★★★
french filmmaker Xavier Giannoli He used Balzac for his award-winning (deservedly) ‘Lost Illusions’, but his films relied mostly on press headlines: let’s remember ‘The history of a lie’ (2009), about a real-life con artist who pretends to be a highway construction manager (and ends up building it), or ‘Physical appereance’ (2018), about a young woman from southeastern France who claims to have seen the virgin. The famous carbon tax scam, in which a group of criminals managed to pocket millions of euros between 2008 and 2009, also made many headlines.
It is based on a signed research book. Fabrice ArfiThe ‘Chanson d’amour’ director created, co-wrote and directed ‘Blood and Money’ (Film, six episodes from Tuesday the 23rd; another six in March), more than just an interesting plot companion piece. Netflix documentary ‘Kings of Fraud’related to Guillaume NiclouxHouellebecq’s cinema assistant in the films ‘The Abduction of Michel Houellebecq’ and ‘Thalasso’; o more complex and realistic investigation than suggested by the police expert Olivier Marchal in 2017 with the movie ‘Carbon’was inspired by the same case.
So what did that Great Coup consist of? Let’s remember that Europe imposed sanctions to combat global warming. annual CO2 emission limit to the most polluting companies. To the disappointment of environmentalists, if a company was forced to exceed this limit, it could always buy its own product. right to pollute.
In the series, several Tunisian Jews, here called Fitous (Ramzy Bedia) and Bouli (David Ayala), astute opportunity seekers, They entered the carbon quota market and managed to pocket the 16.9% VAT generated on each transaction through the establishment of environmental shell companies.; It’s a fortune stolen from the taxpayer, given that the exchange created for this event (christened Overgreen in the series) is affiliated with the Deposit Fund, France’s public bank. For this they have the financial support of Jérôme Attias (Niels SchneiderHe replaces the planned but unfortunately deceased Gaspard Ulliel), a cocky investor, addicted to gambling and speed, who is heavily in debt and also does not want to owe anything to his wealthy Ashkenazi father-in-law.
person who is Director of the National Forensic Customs ServiceSimon Weynachter (a huge Vincent LindonAlready seen in the Giannoli area in ‘The Apparition’), he is tasked with explaining this complex conspiracy and his investigation to us while being interrogated within the framework of the criminal investigation. It is impossible not to sympathize with this honest man in a crooked world; His repressed anger is that of any decent spectator. As well as trying in vain to assimilate her widowhood and get closer to a drug-addicted girl (Emilie). Victorie Du Bois), have to endure The sad picture of environmentalism turning into a business and capitalism being erected as the last stage of humanity.
Giannoli can express his melancholy as he wishes Michael Mann (i.e. placing the sleepless Weynachter in front of the city lights), but more often he allows himself to be carried away by the joys of the city. Scorsese It’s more canonical (“One of Ours” or “Casino”) for depicting an ecosystem of intense extinction that stretches from the highest levels to the roughest asphalt and from Paris to Manila passing through Tel Aviv. Like the globetrotting ‘Succession’, this series has a main theme between neoclassical and electronic; It’s the producer’s job. RoneIt is repeated with many different variations throughout a sucking action. Great testimonials turned into great results.