Popular Posts

  • Bangla Cinema - My favorites over the years
    This is a list of 100 of my favorite Bangla films that I have had the opportunity of seeing over the years. I would like to recommend vie...
  • 'Rockstar' is coming to rock us!
    ROCKSTAR is going to be Ranbir Kapoor's next release. It's releasing on the 11th of November. The music from the soundtrack ...
  • Friendship to Love: Ek Main Aur Ek Tu
    Ek Main Aur Ek Tu is the new film from Karan Johar's production house. It's the perfect Valentine's Day movie. Or...
  • Aamiriaana
    Aamir Khan has always been distinctive. Even his harshest critics would have to agree on that for sure. He had always had a perfect Mr Cl...
  • Scorched! Scarred!
    Who'd have expected vultures to hover over Park Street ? After all, Park Street has always been the happily-bustling passageway, where b...
  • an LSD-esque grandeur
    New age cinema, world cinema, experimental cinema, parallel cinema, offbeat cinema - call it what you may, but we haven't had it this...
  • The Year That Was
    2011...... the year that was It's been more than two weeks into the new year. Yet, I think it is the right time to look back i...
  • Wanna Speak vs Don't Wanna Speak
    If you have a chance to express yourself, to speak your mind, to get listened to, you should grab it with both arms, grab the chance ...
  • Angshumaner Chhobi
    Every time a new director arrives on the scene, there is always a lot of excitement among the cine-viewing public, especially among the ent...
  • Lessons learnt
    Learning lessons, I mean life's lessons and not the school lessons that we learn by rote, is actually fun and not boring when the lesso...

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Nicolas Le Floch

It is a television series that has had me enraptured.
And it is in French, a language which I do not follow.
I have to rely solely on the subtitles, yet it is so very exciting!
Set in the shadow of the big and small events that characterize the history of 18th Century France, the series features Nicolas Le Floch, the fictional hero from the detective novels of Jean-François Parot, who happens to be the young Marquis of Ranreuil and Police Commissioner at the Châtelet. The tales are of sordid crime and passion, laced with intrigue and depravity, romance and mystery, and above all a historical grandeur of the times which were an admixture of the best and the worst.
Aired on TV5 Monde Asie, the Asian counterpart of the French channel, on Monday nights, the series has me wondering why the whole world isn't buzzing about its charm. Absolutely recommended, for adults only.



Posted by at
Labels:

3 comments:

Sunny said...

Thanks for writing about this wonderful series. Sadly, much isn't written about the original programming that excites viewers in the non-English parts of the world. I am sure the small but timely write-up will lead to the series having many new takers. In these days of digital transmission, the French network is picked up by most cable and DTH networks, giving us the access to this brilliant detective/crime-thriller series.

Friday, April 12, 2013
Deep said...

Am impressed. Awesome selection of teleseries. Wish I could read the books too.

Friday, April 12, 2013
raj said...

The diabolical humor and the mix of history and intrigue is too alluring..... and the eponymous hero too cool with his blend of sexiness and intelligence.

Friday, April 19, 2013

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)