The Eddy

A bunch of nasty characters start getting into hot water in multicultural Paris, where people just “don’t understand" when they don’t like the topic of discussion. Thanks to Chazelle’s directing, the movie makes for unexpectedly captivating viewing. The actors play the tough guy and the life’s wrecks with assurance and gusto. The concept of a different perspective in each episode is interesting… It’s all a bit like a telenovela designed to pull on your heart strings (but filmed a hundred times better) with real actors and quality directing, but the music raises it to another level. The dramatic arc of the whole series is textbook perfect and the unpleasant characters soon start to fight for the audience’s forgiveness. One of the dialog scenes towards the end reminded me of my classmate Tomas, who was also forced to play the classics, but then started to do it his own way and now you have to spend over 50 bucks to see him in concert. (10.05.2020)