Prose up Channel 5 the dive into Paris of the Belle Époque thanks to Montmartreiaired tonight June 11th at 9.40pm with the second episode. Halfway between historical reconstruction and melodrama, the series features a can-can dancer struggling with a complicated family reunion, between cabaret, scandalous loves, social ambitions and broken destinies.
Montmartre Canale 5 TV series tonight’s episode 11 June: previews, plot
Consisting of 8 episodesCanale 5 broadcasts two per evening, Montmartre is a French TV series set in early twentieth-century Paris and has for protagonist Céleste (Alice Dufour), a can-can dancer from the Éléphant Rosea cabaret in the famous Parisian neighborhood. Those of his brothers also revolve around his life: Arsène (Victor Meutelet), brilliant engineer who would like to live his homosexuality openly, and Rose (Claire Romain) young washerwoman forced by her boyfriend to work in a brothel.
After having scandalized the right-thinking with his first stripteaseCéleste becomes a star of the cabaret run by Youri (Pablo Pauly). In parallel, Rose meets Count Charles (Mikaël Mittelstadt)a charming nobleman who lives with his mother in a luxurious castle, while Arséne is enchanted by the boxer Octave (Axel Mandron).
Victor Meutelet and Alice Dufour in a scene from “Montmartre”. (Photo by Julien Panié/TF1)
Céleste must save the Éléphant Rose
In the first episode airing tonight, Céleste must come up with an innovative trick to try to save the Éléphant Rosethreatened with closure by the minister following the striptease scandal. Meanwhile, Arsène decides to go to America, but is stopped by his sister adoptive Augustine (Mathilde Seigner) who asks him for help to find her lover Octave. Rose, for her part, decides to leave the brothel and pose for an unknown painter from Montmartredespite the warnings of his sister Céleste.
In the next episodethe policeman Léon (Hugo Becker) agrees to have Céleste accompany him to Saint-Loup to help him investigate his father’s murder. In parallel, Octave and Arsène are looking for money for their project to build an electric motor. To raise the money, the two they organize a boxing match clandestine. Meanwhile, Rose, who believed she knew Charles and had found a safe haven in him, discovers his true identity. And the consequences will be unpredictable.
Montmartre: the cast of the series on Canale 5
In addition to the good Alice Dufour in the role of the protagonist, the series can also count on the presence of the young and talented Victor Meutelet and Claire Romain. The actor, who plays the tormented Arséne, has starred in Emily in Paris (it was Timothée, Emily’s brief flirtation in the first season) and recently he played Johnny Hallyday in the film Monseur Aznavour.
Claire Romain, on the other hand, is an actress born in 1995 who gained notoriety thanks to TV series Here everything begins. With a career that ranges from auteur cinema to TV, Claire recently starred in the Netflix series Cat’s eyes inspired by the Japanese manga of the same name.
Claire Romain in a scene from “Montmartre”. (Photo by Julien Panié/TF1)
Who is Blanche Cavelli, the “real” dancer who inspired the character of Céleste in Montmartre
Born near Paris in 1875, Blanche Cavellipseudonym of Eugénie Zélia Chevallier, was a French artist active in the lively theater scene Parisian of the Belle Époque. From a very young age, she performs as a singer, actress and dancer but his fame is linked above all to show Le Coucher d’Yvetteperformed in 1894 in Paris.
In this performance, Blanche played a woman getting ready for bed, progressively undressing in front of the audience. The number caused a stir and helped make her a famous figure of entertainment of the time. After the wedding but with the painter and musician Louis Huvey, Blanche gradually distanced herself from the world of entertainment and died in 1951.