Florent Sauze signed for France Télévisions this season Grand Palais, Chicha Loungeit was a romantic comedy in a shisha bar, threatened with administrative closure, in a city in the south of France. His favorite series is urban and American.
Florent Sauze: “Atlantait’s one of my favorite series. What’s pretty crazy about the series Atlanta, is that it takes us a few episodes to wonder what it is? At the beginning, we see a bit of the lifestyle of a young African American who is struggling and who suddenly discovers that he has a cousin who does rap and he wants to become this cousin’s manager. But in fact, very quickly, we realize that through this little life of a traditional galley slave or average American, it is about telling what it is like to be a young African American in Atlanta, in the United States, in America. What is it like to try to survive? What is it like to be poor, black in the United States?
Atlantait’s a series created in 2016, the story of two cousins on the Atlanta rap scene, but it’s more than that, continues Florent Sauze.
“Atlanta doesn’t belong to any genre, so we’re both facing a form of entertainment because we’re on 10 times 25 minutes, it’s urban, it’s cool and there’s rap. But in fact, underneath, there’s a real political statement, a real statement on racism, on cultural appropriation, on what does it mean to be black? But also what does it mean to be white in the United States? What does it mean to want to become black when you’re white or when you’re black, to become white. When you’re poor, to want to become rich…”
With new characters in each episode. And an episode that left its mark on Florent Sauze.
“A bit of a science fiction episode… it’s a character who goes to a mansion. Donald Glover created the series, who plays the character who welcomes him. A kind of character completely redone with plastic surgery, who is white, a kind of descendant of what Michael Jackson could be, who locks one of the characters in this mansion, it’s very strange.”
A series written and performed by the same man
“This is Donald Glover, an actor who starred in a series called ‘Community_’. An actor at the start who is also a rapper and who carries the series. It’s very scathing. We are on a rather scathing comedy in the end, and on very fresh, very modern characters, who often make you laugh, but sometimes also make you think a lot and even sometimes, it goes to the limit of embarrassment. The series shakes you up.”_
Atlanta4 seasons available on Disney +.
