Année Zéro (French for 'Year Zero'), alternatively titled Start Over in English-speaking countries, is a French-Belgian TV crime drama and science fiction television series created by Céleste Balin and Maxime Crupaux, and directed by Olivier Barma. Alongside Balin and Crupaux, scriptwriters are Gaëlle Baron, Céline Dréan, Germain Huard and Cécile Leclère. The series stars Éric Caravaca as cardiac surgeon Marc, Claire Keim as his ex-wife Anna, Marc Riso as ambulance driver Cédric, and Émilie Dequenne as Juliette, a police lieutenant. Marc Ruchmann portrays Simon, Anna's clandestine lover and Marc's colleague. Année Zéro{{'}s four episodes were broadcast from 3 January 2023 via M6.[1][2]
| Année Zéro | |
|---|---|
| Also known as | Echo, Start Over |
| Genre | Crime drama, science fiction |
| Created by | Céleste Balin, Maxime Crupaux |
| Written by |
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| Directed by | Olivier Barma |
| Starring | |
| Music by | Laurent Aknin |
| Country of origin | France |
| Original language | French |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
| Production | |
| Running time | 48–52 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | M6 |
Premise
editOn 31 December 2023, Marc is found murdered in his former office – he had been dismissed after several suspicious patient deaths. Marc's ex-wife Anna, his friend Cédric and Juliette, a police lieutant whose husband died after being operated on by Marc, are mysteriously taken back a year inside a lift.[3] They find Marc celebrating New Year's Day 2023 with his colleagues in the hospital. Back home, Cédric notices there is no trace of his fiancée, Margot, whom he met on Valentine's Day 2023. Juliette is happy reunited with her husband, Karim who is still alive. Anna and Cédric decide to identify Marc's killer. Juliette, reluctant at first, agrees to join them. Each of their decisions changes the year 2023 they had already lived.
Cast and characters
edit- Claire Keim as Anna Honoré: Provence General Hospital psychiatrist, Marc's ex-wife
- Émilie Dequenne as Juliette Kharoub: police lieutenant, Karim's wife
- Marc Riso as Cédric Giraud: hospital ambulance driver/paramedic, Marc's friend
- Marc Ruchmann as Simon Legendre: surgeon, Marc's protégé, Anna's lover
- Éric Caravaca as Marc Honoré: head cardiac surgeon, Anna's ex-husband
- Foëd Amara as Karim Kharoub: Juliette's husband, gambler; becomes gravedigger
- Loup-Denis Elion as Stéphane Iannucci: police officer, Juliette's colleague
- Elisa Erka as Margot de Michelis: aspirant dancer, Cédric's girlfriend, wheel-chair bound after traffic collision
- Paul Mauch as Pavel: aspirant dancer, Margot's sometime boyfriend
- Sofia Roser as Inès Kharoub: Juliette's ten-year-old daughter
- Pierre Laplace as Robert: hospital's security guard
- Guillaume Bursztyn as Monsieur Marty (English: Mr Marty): grateful patient, chicken farmer
- Gérard Dubouche as Commandant (English: Commander): Juliette, Stéphane's boss
Production
editAnnée Zéro was created by Céleste Balin and Maxime Crupaux, who co-wrote its four episodes with Gaëlle Baron, Céline Dréan, Germain Huard and Cécile Leclère.[1][4][5] The director for the series is Olivier Barma.[6] Filming occurred in mid-2022 under the working title, Echo, for M6.[4] Initial filming used southern France locations at Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, and La Ciotat; while later material was shot in the Paris region.[7]
A disused wing of the Centre Hospitalier Robert Ballanger (Robert Ballanger Hospital Centre)) in Aulnay-sous-Bois, was used for scenes depicting the fictitious Provence General Hospital's cardiology department. Barma explained, We have planned two elevators – one here and another at the Faculty of Sciences in Orsay where we shot the end of the scene, when the three characters get out of the elevator.
[6] Claire Keim joined the cast due to its script: I found the script very original, compared to everything I usually read... I was really surprised, it's bold, it looks like the Anglo-Saxon series that I love. It's a step further than what we're used to seeing in French fiction.
[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Casting Année zéro saison 1" [Casting Year Zero Season 1]. AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ "Année zéro (Episodes 1–4)" [Year Zero (Episodes 1–4)]. Be-Films (in French). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ "Start Over de Olivier Barma (2023)". Unifrance. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ a b Jeremy (30 May 2022). " Écho, thriller fantastique avec Claire Keim en tournage pour M6" [Echo, Fantasy Thriller with Claire Keim Filming for M6]. Le Zapping du PAF (in French). Retrieved 24 December 2024. n.b.: Echo was later re-titled Année Zéro
- ^ Pascal (10 January 2023). "À découvrir dès le 3 janvier sur M6, la mini-série Année Zéro, avec Claire Keim" [To Be Discovered from January 3 on M6, the Mini-series Year Zero, with Claire Keim]. Le Blog TV News (in French). Retrieved 24 December 2024..
- ^ a b c Dunand, Jérémie (28 December 2022). "Année Zéro sur M6: on était sur le tournage de la série fantastique avec Claire Keim et Emilie Dequenne" [Year Zero on M6 : We Were on the Set of the Fantasy Series with Claire Keim and Emilie Dequenne]. AlloCiné (in French). Retrieved 24 December 2024.
- ^ "2024 - Year Zero on M6: We Were on the Set of the Fantastic Series with Claire Keim and Emilie Dequenne". gettotext. 29 December 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2024.
External links
edit- Année Zéro at IMDb