Amazon Prime Video has ordered its next French series original, “Darknet-sur-Mer,” (“On the Darknet”) a crime comedy series produced by Noor Sadar’s White Lion Films, a Mediawan Group company.
The six-episode series, directed by Remy Four and Julien War (“On The Other Side of the Tracks”), has just started filming in the Charente Maritime region of Southwest France. “Darknet-sur-Mer” is the first scripted program to be supported by the Selective Platforms Fund recently launched by the National Film Board for content backed by streamers.
“On the Darknet” revolves around a mysterious website named Vrasesin which offers services from contract killers and turns out to be a scam created by Ben and Flo, two amateur hackers who live in a quiet fishing resort at Ponet-sur-Mer. But Ben and Flo’s enterprise soon get them in trouble with Alkan, an Albanian criminal who is searching for a contract killer to assassinate the chief of a gang.
The six-episode series, directed by Remy Four and Julien War (“On The Other Side of the Tracks”), has just started filming in the Charente Maritime region of Southwest France. “Darknet-sur-Mer” is the first scripted program to be supported by the Selective Platforms Fund recently launched by the National Film Board for content backed by streamers.
“On the Darknet” revolves around a mysterious website named Vrasesin which offers services from contract killers and turns out to be a scam created by Ben and Flo, two amateur hackers who live in a quiet fishing resort at Ponet-sur-Mer. But Ben and Flo’s enterprise soon get them in trouble with Alkan, an Albanian criminal who is searching for a contract killer to assassinate the chief of a gang.
- 1/27/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
*Minor spoilers below.
Director: Yann Gozlan.
Writers: Yann Gozlan, and Guillaume Lemans.
Cast: Zoé Felix, Eric Savin, and Arié Elmaleh.
Director Yann Gozlan's Captifs aka Caged was released in the United Kingdom April 4th, through Optimum Releasing. The film is situated in the former Yugoslavia and here, three doctors find themselves in a harrowing situation. This is a scenario that involves vivisection and organ harvesting, which is a theme previously covered in films like Turistas, Repo Men and a smaller film from director Baltasar Kormakur's called Inhale. Both Scott Weinberg of Fearnet.com and Carl Doherty of Shelf Abuse call the film plain: "a genre effort that does nothing to stand out from the rental store shelf" (Shelf). However, this film arouses strong feelings of pity for the characters, and overall the film is suspenseful, as the villains' plans are kept in secret.
Carole (Zoe Felix), Mathias (Eric Savin...
Director: Yann Gozlan.
Writers: Yann Gozlan, and Guillaume Lemans.
Cast: Zoé Felix, Eric Savin, and Arié Elmaleh.
Director Yann Gozlan's Captifs aka Caged was released in the United Kingdom April 4th, through Optimum Releasing. The film is situated in the former Yugoslavia and here, three doctors find themselves in a harrowing situation. This is a scenario that involves vivisection and organ harvesting, which is a theme previously covered in films like Turistas, Repo Men and a smaller film from director Baltasar Kormakur's called Inhale. Both Scott Weinberg of Fearnet.com and Carl Doherty of Shelf Abuse call the film plain: "a genre effort that does nothing to stand out from the rental store shelf" (Shelf). However, this film arouses strong feelings of pity for the characters, and overall the film is suspenseful, as the villains' plans are kept in secret.
Carole (Zoe Felix), Mathias (Eric Savin...
- 4/20/2011
- by Remove28DaysLaterAnalysisThis@gmail.com (Michael Allen)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
French horror has been making tremendous waves recently. Films like Switchblade Romance, Them, Martyrs, The Pack, In Their Sleep, Inside and Frontiers have propelled Gallic filmmakers to the forefront of the genre.
Easily matching – and in many cases completely outdoing – their American counterparts, some of them have even been employed to remake certain American horror films. Case in point: Alexandre Aja and his vicious 2006 The Hills Have Eyes remake.
Continuing the French horror trend is Caged directed by Yann Gozlan. This film is another one of those ‘be careful where you travel’ type of deals. Very much like Hostel, Turistas, The Ruins or The Human Centipede. However unlike those films Caged doesn’t focus on a group of vulnerable tourists, but rather, a trio of doctors working in Eastern Europe as part of a humanitarian aid group.
The group is made up of Carole (Zoé Felix), Samir (Arié Elmaleh) and...
Easily matching – and in many cases completely outdoing – their American counterparts, some of them have even been employed to remake certain American horror films. Case in point: Alexandre Aja and his vicious 2006 The Hills Have Eyes remake.
Continuing the French horror trend is Caged directed by Yann Gozlan. This film is another one of those ‘be careful where you travel’ type of deals. Very much like Hostel, Turistas, The Ruins or The Human Centipede. However unlike those films Caged doesn’t focus on a group of vulnerable tourists, but rather, a trio of doctors working in Eastern Europe as part of a humanitarian aid group.
The group is made up of Carole (Zoé Felix), Samir (Arié Elmaleh) and...
- 4/3/2011
- by Alex Wagner
- FilmShaft.com
Caged
Guest review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Arié Elmaleh, Eric Savin, Zoé Félix | Written by Guillaume Lemans, Yann Gozlan | Directed by Yann Gozlan
If torture porn has taught me anything over the years, it’s to never, ever travel on a desolate road in a foreign country, let alone travelling in an underwhelming pack of three. Always, I repeat always, travel in numbers, with an over-stock of deadly weaponry. You know, just in case the shit hits the fan. Welcome to Caged, the latest whose in-film rules are of such face-palming stupidity.
A young nurse named Carole (Félix) saves valuable lives as part of a humanitarian aid group. When her mission comes to a close, her short sprint to freedom, along with two males, is thwarted along an isolated road (in a war town Eastern Europe, of all places!) when a van of ominous, but forceful, men carrying...
Guest review by Dog Ate My Wookie
Stars: Arié Elmaleh, Eric Savin, Zoé Félix | Written by Guillaume Lemans, Yann Gozlan | Directed by Yann Gozlan
If torture porn has taught me anything over the years, it’s to never, ever travel on a desolate road in a foreign country, let alone travelling in an underwhelming pack of three. Always, I repeat always, travel in numbers, with an over-stock of deadly weaponry. You know, just in case the shit hits the fan. Welcome to Caged, the latest whose in-film rules are of such face-palming stupidity.
A young nurse named Carole (Félix) saves valuable lives as part of a humanitarian aid group. When her mission comes to a close, her short sprint to freedom, along with two males, is thwarted along an isolated road (in a war town Eastern Europe, of all places!) when a van of ominous, but forceful, men carrying...
- 4/1/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Yann Gozlan's Caged Featuring Zoé Félix, Eric Savin, and Arié Elmaleh, Yann Gozlan's Captifs / Caged won Best Picture honors on Sunday, Oct. 17, at the 2010 edition of ScreamFest La Horror Film Festival. Co-written by Gozlan and Guillaume Lemans, Caged tells the story three humanitarian aid workers kidnapped for mysterious reasons somewhere in Eastern Europe. As per the 2010 ScreamFest La website, "held captive, cared for and kept alive in an oppressive and sinister setting, the three prisoners soon discover with horror what their kidnappers truly have in store for them…" Set in Medieval England during the plague and revolving around the exploits of a daring knight and a beautiful satan worshiper, Chris Smith's Black Death won four awards: Best Director, Best Actor (Sean Bean), Best Cinematography (Sebastian Edschmid), and Best Musical Score (Christian Henson). Also in the cast: Eddie Redmayne and Carice van Houten. Full list of 2010 ScreamFest La...
- 10/21/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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