The Plague

This famous novel, written in the forties, and supposed to be an allegory of the WW2 and the Nazi troops who occupied France, has never been put on screen by the French movie or even TV industry; only foreign...So now the French has at last decided to make it. And what better pretext, not better reason, to use this story to evoke the COVID period? Many, many elements remind us the COVID plague and all the restrictions, lockdowns, masks, curfews, documents of all kinds to present everywhere.... And also a good pretext to denounce totalitarian regimes, the manipulation that the government may use against population. This is a thriller, full of characters and fates, not always without gloomy atmosphere, tragic elements that makes this series not for all audiences. It may be depressing, from time to time. Frederic Pierrot is awesome in the lead role, and I would also have imagined Jean-Pierre Daroussin in this doctor character.