Isabelle Adjani will shoot a summer saga for Netflix

Isabelle Adjani soon to return to Netflix, for a series: the actress will star in June in a “summer saga” taking place in Provence, the platform’s vice-president of content for Europe, the Middle East and Africa announced on Tuesday. “It’s a French tradition” that this type of saga about a family and its secrets, underlined Larry Tanz, during a conference at the Séries Mania festival in Lille. The plot is as follows: Alba, a young single mother on the run with her son, lands a job as a picker on a flower farm in Provence, run by a prosperous family. But shortly after her arrival, the patriarch of the clan is assassinated and Alba finds herself the number one suspect. Isabelle Adjani plays the role of the matriarch.

The matriarch

The series, whose broadcast date has not been specified, is created by Nils-Antoine Sambuc, one of the co-writers of season 2 of In Therapy. The five-César artist was starring in the film in 2023 Thieves by Mélanie Laurent on Netflix. Larry Tanz also announced the production this year of a Dutch detective series, Amsterdam Empire, co-created by Nico Moolenaar and mixing glamor and darkness. Actress Famke Janssen, who starred in the James Bond and X-Men sagas, will be in the cast.

Netflix is ​​producing more and more films and series locally. Forty productions are currently being filmed in Europe, noted the manager, who supervises the Californian group’s original programs on the continent.