1899
gblack: mystery, historical-drama
Director: Baran Odar and Jantje Friese. With Emily Beecham, Andreas Pietschmann, Alexandre Willaume, Isabella Wei, Yann Gael, Mathilde Ollivier
A scene from the TV series “1899” (photo © Netflix).
A ghost ship, characters full of a mysterious past, anxieties and nightmares, a complicated plot that unfolds in multiple narrative and time lines. 1899the new German series from Netflix, features many typical ingredients of the contemporary storytelling of platforms and it develops as a sophisticated (and sometimes convoluted) overlapping mechanism.
“The mind is larger than the sky; the mind is deeper than the sea»; indeed, the incipit of the series is a warning of the complexity of one narration that comes to life on a ship en route to New York on October 19, 1899.
One at a time we discover the characters of this microcosmor: the doctor Maura Franklyn and Captain Eyk in particular, but also a French married couple, a priest, the geisha Ling Yi, machinists and toolmakers of the third class.
Their stories are intertwined with the story of the Prometheus, a steamer that disappeared four months earlier, from which help messages suddenly arrive. But he has no survivors, so who launched the SOS?
In short, a tangle that winds through the eight episodes (about an hour long, more an invitation to decantation than to binge-watching). It is no coincidence that the authors of the series are the same as dark.
For those who love the thick and impenetrable mysteries of the mind and want to immerse themselves in complex narratives.
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