LAETITIA
| 2021 – 6 x 52′ – Series – Drama, Thriller, Crime, Biopic.
Created by: Antoine Lacomblez, Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.
Directed by: Jean-Xavier de Lestrade.
Starring: Marie Colomb, Sophie Breyer, Yannick Choirat, Sam Karmann, Alix Poisson, Kévin Azaïs, Noam Morgensztern, Clotilde Mollet, Cyril Descours, Guillaume Marquet.
Official Selection Sundance International Film Festival 2021.
In French with English subtitles.
A HBO Max release. |
The Oscar-winning documentarian Jean-Xavier De Lestrade turns to fiction to tell a story of grisly murder in western France: the series follows the disappearance of eighteen year old Laetitia, (Marie Colomb), and the repercussions that follow her twin sister Jessica, played by (Sophie Breyer). “Nearly as soon as the show begins, the 18-year-old title character of “Laetitia” is missing and presumed dead, her scooter lying in the road outside the foster home in western France where she lives with her twin sister, Jessica. “Over six episodes, using the police investigation of her disappearance as a framework for their own sociological examination, De Lestrade and Lacomblez piece together a somber portrait of a provincial society awash in male anger and violence and a bureaucracy whose good intentions can be thwarted by budget cuts, political posturing and demoralization.” ~ The New York Times.