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Power, Paranoia and Politics Mark Series Mania Thriller ‘In the Shadows’
'Anatomy of a Fall' breakout Swann Arlaud and cinema stalwart Melvil Poupaud topline political thriller co-created by former French Prime Minister.
While showrunner Pierre Schoeller has spent a career tracing his country’s corridors of power through films like “Versailles” and “The Minister,” he found a most opportune creative partner working with politician Edouard Philippe to adapt the latter’s 2011 novel. As the right’s newly minted presidential standard-bearer, Paul Francoeur ( Melvil Poupaud) must consolidate his party’s reactionary flank while keeping ahead of a political — and criminal — scandal that threatens to engulf him and his campaign. Co-lead Melvil Poupaud cuts an equally unexpected figure as the nexus of this power game, playing a force of nature whose disability — and use of a wheelchair — has no bearing on his electoral sway.
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