Una fabulous surprise for all lovers of The fantastic Mrs. Maisel And A mother for friend: From April 24 on the Prime Video platform the first complete season of Étoile. The formidable couple of screenwriters Amy Sherman and Daniel Palladino he wrote and directed A new series, brilliant and sophisticated, on the world of dance. Among the protagonists, An exceptional couple: Charlotte Gainsbourg And Luke Kirby.
Étoilethe plot of the new first video series
The world of ballet is in turmoil. The New York City Ballet and the Opéra National de Paris, two of the most important institutions of choreutic art, They live a moment of profound crisis. On the one hand, a growing difficulty in finding adequate funds for the school and the prestigious theatrical arrangements. On the other, a flooding bleeding of members. The new generations live dance on Tik Tok and looking at the talent shows, ignoring the sacrifices of a solid academic preparation.
Geneviève Lavigne (Charlotte Gainsbourg) is a former star of the Opera and now director of the Parisian National Theater. To save his work, proposes to the American colleague, and former flame, Jack McMillan (Luke Kirby) A fruitful collaboration. The two companies They could exchange their best talents for a year. Donate new lifeblood by attracting a wider audience.
At first, The fascinating executive director of the Metropolitan Ballet Theater of the Lincoln Center It turns out to be deeply contrary to the idea of revolutionizing their school. Despite his stubbornness and the desire to save his company alone, The Management Committee and the personalities who economically subsidize the NY City Ballet, they force him to change his opinion. Jack must accept the new project.
Charlotte Gainsbourg in “étoile” (first videos)
Étoile: Luke Kirby and Charlotte Gainsbourg
A long negotiation between Geneviève and Jack begins regarding the choice of dancers. The enigmatic Cristin Shamblee is pulling the rows of the organization (Simon Callow), who accepts the proposals of the French without conditions. Not only that: the diabolical Cristin convinces the board to change the name of the theater.
The building, which for 75 years has been dedicated to Dorothy Fish, Jack’s grandmother, will be baptized Shamblee Theater. When Jack communicates the sad news to his mother (Kelly Bishop), the woman promises him to fight to keep the family title. The exchange of Ballerini thus begins. Cheyenne arrives in New York Toussaint (Lou de Laâge), very talented French ètoile, with a bizarre and rather aggressive character.
Luke Kirby in “étoile” (first videos)
Before being a dancer, Cheyenne It is a combative environmentalist. It has been arrested several times for trying to boycott illegal fishing boats. He has no friends, he does not hold ties with colleagues and is always in contrast with choreographers. On the first day of rehearsals, he finds no feeling with male partners proposed to her.
To get them away from the show, he tells an unlikely and frightening story of his mother’s Christmas Village. A place inhabited by women where the only man who remained, skilled seducer, was stabbed by his parent. Actually, Cheyenne has in mind to dance only with his colleague Gael Rodriguez (David Alvarez), who chose to take a sabbatical year by working in an agricultural market.
Cheyenne and Mishi
First he convinces him to accept the role and to return to the stage, then persuades Jack to hire him. In Paris, Missi Duplessis is called (Taïs Vinolo). The dancer, of a wealthy family and a minister’s daughter, he finds himself uncomfortable returning to the Operara Because everyone believes it a registered letter. During training, struggles to keep up with the other colleagues.
He confesses to Geneviève that he has lost his “mojo”, his magic and wanting to return to New York, where he has true friends and nobody deals with it differently. Between conceptual scenography With a real bull on stage to steal the scene from the artists And a flared choreographerbrilliant as unruly (Gideon Glick), The shows begin to take shape. Thanks to Cheyenne, Jack discovers a grass talent.
It is little Susu (Lamay Zhang), daughter of the cleaning woman. The girl has long been studying the dance steps thanks to the videos that the mother secretly records during the choreography of the body of the dance. Looking at it, Jack recalls the real mission of his work: leave a mark in the new generations.
Yanic Truesdale and Charlotte Gainsbourg in “étoile” (first video)
Étoilethe review of the first series
Étoile It is Llast of a long series of tales for TV set in the world of dance. By the original Hunger – they will be famouswho made so much generations of spectators fall in love, to more recent proposals such as the Francesissimo Opèra, Ballet is a universe that has a lot of feeling with the small screen. The tutu and the shoes, The pliè and the Arabesque are told by the formidable duo Sherman – Palladino with their recognized verve.
The script is able to move from sophisticated comedy to moments of unusual seriousness. Their declaration of love for dance comes from afar. In 2012 Bunheads – at a dance pace, Written by the two spouses starring a former soubrette recycled dance teacher in a provincial city, lasted only one season before being brutally canceled. The sense of revenge brought them to a subsequent level, destined to have much more success.
Although it is difficult affirm That Étoile can match the unreachable masterpiece of Mrs Maisel, The new series maintains the brilliant cut, the barrs, Elegance, style and that sense of lightness like a smile with a lips. You can also some reminiscence of the lunar and eccentric universe of the artists of Mozart in the Jungle, their way of reconciling work and private life.
Although slides at times in the caricature as for Cheyenne’s revolted profile, not very consistent with the environment to which it belongs or the behavior over the lines of the eccentric Shamblee, each character is built intelligently.
The cast of Étoile
Luke Kirby is a well -known actor to all lovers of the Sherman-Palladino works. Played comedian Lenny Bruce in The fantastic Mrs. Maisel, winning two Emmy prizes. The French actress Charlotte Gainsbourg (Melancholia)which in the series replaced his colleague Camille Cottin (Call my agent!), It is perfect in the role of Geneviève.
In her she reflects an athlete nature that still believes in the therapeutic power of art. He transmits a subversive temperament, hidden by the diplomacy with which he faces the detestated worldliness that surrounds his enviable profession.
There is no shortage of old acquaintances like Kelly Bishop and Yanic Truesdale, The unforgettable Emily Gilmore and Michel Gerard of A mother for friend. In the cast we find professional dancers such as the first dancer of the Boston Ballet, John Lam and Unity Phelan and Tiler Peck of the City Ballet in New York.
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