2023-05-15 05:22:03
A motorist who hits a pedestrian and flees just before Blondie begins to sing “Heart of Glass”: rarely has there been a more caustic introduction to talking regarding cancer. Sara doesn’t really have a choice, she risks missing her train.
A wagon in which a merry band of chicks sit, who joke regarding the length of shorts and rearrange the seats to travel together. These “chemo friends” are preparing to attack the dome of Lauze, a summit over 3,500 m, to scatter the ashes of a missing friend.
A project as crazy as this series is invigorating. “Les Randonneuses”, broadcast from this Monday, May 15 at 9:10 p.m. on TF 1, features six women directly or indirectly affected by the disease, six fighters on their way to a mad ascent, six heroines in whom everyone will recognize a mother, wife, sister.
“These women never feel sorry”
In the breathtaking landscapes of Haute-Maurienne (Savoie), where the fiction produced by Habanita Federation was filmed, we laugh a lot. We get angry, we love each other, sometimes we crush a tear. In short, we live. Intensely.
“It’s a series of public utility”, told us Alix Poisson on the set. “These women never feel sorry. At the same time, we call a spade a spade, continues the one who plays Sara. We talk regarding all the repercussions of female cancers, in particular the loss of one’s body, of one’s sexuality. »
For Fanny Riedberger, producer, it was important to show everything that the disease can imply, without sinking into pathos: we know that it is serious, there is no need to add to it.
For a long time, the one who lost her mother to breast cancer kept her distance from the subject. Until she came across a report devoted to the association Des Sommets pour Boubondir, which allows women facing cancer to participate in mountain activities.
Confronted with this disease, “we tend to curl up on ourselves, not to talk regarding it, even less to play sports, notes the one to whom we also owe the series Toulouse-Lautrec high school on an establishment that welcomes handicapped and able-bodied students. There is a very beautiful community in this association. Cancer is a battle, but one that can be joyful. And he doesn’t always win. »
“A fiction regarding surpassing oneself”
It is not Clémentine Célarié, rewarded at the Series Mania festival in March for her interpretation of Noémie, a lawyer on the street because of illness, who will say the opposite. “This fiction is not regarding cancer. It’s regarding life, surpassing oneself, deciding to go beyond the ordeal, beyond what we thought we might do”, enthuses the one who welcomed this fiction as “a gift” and evoked his own fight in “the Forbidden Words” (Ed. Albin Michel).
An incredible force emerges from this group of women, which also includes Camille Chamoux, Tiphaine Daviot, Claire Borotra and Joséphine de Meaux. Each reacts as she can, with the weapons she has. They are imperfect, lying, damaged. Solidarity. Swings.
“It’s still exceptional to have six heroines in chemo in prime time on TF 1, salutes Camille Chamoux, amazing in the role of Patty, an emergency doctor with breast cancer, who has decided to become sexy and flashy when she started her treatment. It’s very identifying: we all know people affected by this kind of stuff and we know very well that they don’t cry from morning to night. »
“The hiking metaphor is super interesting,” she continues. In an ascent, no one goes at the same speed. Everyone has their own physical and mental abilities. It is through solidarity that you get out of it. These women become heroines. So the sick viewer, on her couch, becomes a hero too. »
« The Hikers », unpublished French series created by Fanny Riedberger, Anna Fregonese and Sylvie Audcoeur (2022), with Clémentine Célarié, Alix Poisson, Camille Chamoux, Claire Borotra, Tiphaine Daviot, Joséphine de Meaux, Lucien Jean-Baptiste, Baptiste Lecaplain, Maxence Danet-Fauvel, Gérémy Crédeville, Elsa Lunghini (episodes 1 and 2 on 6 x 52 minutes).
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