In modern Paris, from the top of his icy tower, Vincent Elbaz, alias commissioner Frank Sharko, ruminates, talks to the dead. He’s a broken man. Dry. Who will have to team up with an overworked policewoman, Lucie Hennebelle, a single mother, to investigate mysterious murders and disappearances of children. A duet born from the pen of the novelist Franck Thilliez, magnificently staged by the director Laure de Butler, who had already signed The promise, the series with Sofia Essaïdi and Olivier Marchal.
E-syndrome this 6-episode series, broadcast from Thursday September 29 on TF1, is a sometimes gloomy, fantastic and very human thriller. It was first the thriller and thriller side that interested the director as well as the touch of the novelist Frank Thilliez.
“His paw is the mystery, specifies Laura de Butler. There is something quite dark, very dark. There is this eternal struggle between good and evil, and all that anchored in a scientific universe that is still very well documented.
The characters also interested the director: “I think it’s great to have two heroes who are in pain, in pain of being, who are shattered heroes. That all that was wrapped up a bit in a genre, it was something new for me. There was also this excitement of doing something that I had never done before.”
We are far from the jovial actor of the Spanish inn. And he liked it. Vincent Elbaz says:
“There is a very inner playground, which I had never really exploited at home, says the actor. Me, I based myself on Franck Thilliez’s novel to build this role. I looked in the novel for the little information I had about Sharko’s physical appearance.
When you come across a sentence like: ‘A slightly ashy look, a little cold, a crew cut, a rather massive guy, but at the same time who is consumed from the inside’, what does it mean? say ? What do we do with that? What do you do with this sentence, when you’re an actor? I said to myself: it must be quite dry, but at the same time, you have to lose weight.
If the series is a success, there is no doubt that Vincent Elbaz could take over this character in a recurring series. Sharko is the hero of several Frank Thilliez novels…E-syndrome it’s from Thursday, September 29, on TF1.
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