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Lupin - Chapter 6
episode 2.1
France 2021
produced by Roxanne Pinheiro, George Kay, Isabelle Degeorges for Gaumont/Netflix
directed by Ludovic Bernard
starring Omar Sy, Soufiane Guerrab, Adama Niane, Shirine Boutella, Etan Simon, Ludivine Sagnier, Hervé Pierre, Daniel Martin, David Forgit, Vincent Furic, Benoît Tachoires, Véronique Royer, Mamadou Haidara, Ludmilla Makowski, Adrian Valli De Villebonne
written and created by George Kay, François Uzan, based on the character Arsène Lupin, created by Maurice Leblanc, music by Mathieu Lamboley
TV-series Lupin, Arsène Lupin
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Looking for his son Raoul (Etan Simon), who has been kidnapped last
episode by his arch nemesis Pellegrini's (Hervé Pierre) hitman
Léonard (Adama Niane), Assane (Omar Sy) accepts the help of Guedira
(Soufiane Guerrab), a policeman on his trail, and they manage to track
down Léonard to a mansion. Assane tries desparately to find his son in
the mansion, and walks into an ambush that almost costs him his life,
unaware that Raoul is actually locked up in Léonard's car's trunk. And
Léonard only lets him know when he sets the car on fire, and when Assane
runs towards the car to save his son, he walks into the reinforcements
Guedira has called and is arrested. The last image of the episode though
suggests Raoul has managed to save himself - but Assane doesn't know that
yet ... At its best, Lupin was a series where the
lead (just like the literary character he's named after) manages to pull
of impossible heists using his ingenuity and a certain amount of
playfulness instead of pure force. That concept though eroded over the
series, and with this episode has been completely given up in favour for a
routine and frankly not all that interesting thriller plot that's almost
annoyingly straightforward, only made worse from repeated unrelated
flashbacks about how young Assane (Mamadou Haidara) stealing a violin for
his girlfriend (and later wife) Claire (Ludmilla Makowski) which do
nothing for the main story and seem nothing more than filler material. A
bit of a shame really, as the series started out as something different
but has become just more of the same.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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