We knew her more on the big floors, the microphone grabbed; it is now in front of the camera that Jenifer Bartoli imposes herself. It is revamped and is revealed in Traqués, the television fiction created by TF1, broadcast on May 14, 2018.
Aesthetically admirable
Jenifer and the seventh art is already a young but beautiful love story. The French singer and actress had revealed herself on the big screen in the comedy Les Francis (Fabrice Begotti), as well as in Faut Pas Lui Dire (Solange Cicurel), alongside Camille Chamoux. She now gives herself a new impetus of adventure by acclimatizing herself to a completely different cinematographic nuance for her: the thriller. With Traqués, directed by Ludovic Colbeau-Justin, Jenifer adds a new string to her bow full of diversity.
In this fiction, she plays Sarah Muñoz, a cold-looking young woman, struck by a past with painful scars, who discovers in her car trunk, a pre-adolescent named Leo, hidden by his father killed shortly after. Targeted by the attackers, Sarah and Léo brave the southern Camargue to try to flee and thus forge an endearing complicity. Even if the originality does not spring from reading the script because of the scripted basis that is the hunt, it fortunately admits to being intriguing and enticing.
Aesthetically the mini-series arouses admiration, especially thanks to the actors who polish it, starting with the inevitable Jenifer, who has enough to keep her head up. Down with the high varnished heels, the black on the eyes and other glitter: when Jenifer puts on Sarah's costume, the singer is forgotten. Only one line given, and we understand that it is multi-talented. Sarah, the character Jenifer plays, hides tears under her tattoos, which the neo-actress translates with super-poignant assurance, to receive an uppercut. For this, Jenifer went "to draw from her own stitched wounds". If these pains have forged Sarah's character, they do not enclose this luminosity that blooms over the minutes, and which shines perfectly thanks to the accuracy of the interpretation. In the other role of the tandem (Léo), Félix Bossuet, known for his role in the trilogy Belle et Sébastien, has everything of a great. Same conclusion for Joffrey Platel, the actor of Tomorrow belongs to us, who bursts the screen.
A deployment of engaging images
The fiction thus sews together the prettyness of an emotional bond between a woman and a child, at the more accentuated and eventful rhythm of their escape. A miscegenation that delivers a surprising result of beauty, even if slight inconsistencies are not excluded. We first note the police investigation too erased for a chase that should have classified it in the first field. Some scenes raise questions, starting with that of the motorway stop, where the young man, falsely dressed as a little girl, is hardly credible. We will also add a more or less expected ending, whose denouement is launched too suddenly, the fault of a hasty editing.
But if some flaws in the realization have crossed the sieve, the film can still claim to be listed in the great successes of the year.
Endowed with a wave of immense charm and supra-emotional or even squeaky sequences, this fiction, far from being linear, invites suspense, but also a glimmer of benevolence on the scales. The bond forged between the two protagonists increases tenfold and stands out as the tender asset of this film. The songs sung by Sarah and Leo in the van that point to the escape is a beautiful illustration of this. In addition to the breathless and captivating hunt that drives almost all of this TV movie, Ludovic Colbeau-Justin models in some corners beautiful messages on mutual aid, love, adoption, or evokes the darkness of life, which make this film a deployment of interesting images. Hat!
Traqués handles scenes of delicate affection and drama, and gives off a beautifully crafted story thanks to justly chosen actors. If the mini-series would have deserved to be extended over more episodes for an addition of details, we hope for a sequel very soon.
Trailer of Traqués, May 14 on TF1.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vsvAJ4P0DU
