A 6 part mystery crime tale set on the French Coast -Brittany. Great location shots in a seaside town. The off season tourist town reminds me of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.!!! Evidently the economy is bad and people have to resort to certain scams to make ends meet. This plot has many twists and turns before it all comes together. I am.
not familiar with any of the actors but they carried their parts pretty well. French productions seem to have great camera work. This one has some great shots. A six part series works well if u watch a couple per night .
8 Reviews
Entertaining
doylefamily-4305415 April 2018
Entertaining enough for binging. A few weak parts in the plot development but the characters carry the story over them. The small French beach town location allows for a limited cast that is believable. Subtitle translations don't interfere and the occasional inaccurate translations are minor. Well wort watching.
Kept me interested, but flawed in many ways .....
PeterHerrmann13 March 2021
Implausible most of the time; on the other hand, most mystery crime series are, and we usually just suspend disbelief for awhile. For most of this series the stretch of reality was not too bad; but the resolution at the end was pretty hard to swallow (had a certain logic to it, but .... I won't spoil it). But I was curious how it would resolve, so give it a slightly above average rating (too often with other series I just lose interest and cease to care). Perhaps a 3 or 4 episode series, rather than 6 episodes, would have been better.
Excellent serie about life in a sleepy seaside resort
ericrochard2 June 2018
If you liked Broadchurch or Hinterland you will appreciate L'Accident. Brittany is not England but the characters and the plot portray well the despair of the French provincial middle class. The characters are real, you can spend sometime in Brest, Quimper or Rennes and you will this mix of people struggling to get by and enjoy their life.
SMALL TOWN MYSTERY
kirbylee70-599-52617924 June 2018
Warning: Spoilers
The picturesque seaside resort town of Brittany, France, is disrupted by a single accident witnessed in the opening moments of this min-series. Rebecca Courvy (Emma Colberti) wakes sitting in her car going the wrong direction, parked on a highway exit and drunk. As she tries to maneuver her way off the road she's hit and killed by an oncoming car that also takes the lives of two others.
The next day her husband Gabriel (Bruno Solo) finds out about the accident and along with his daughter is tossed into a spiral of grief. Rebecca's mother blames it all on Gabriel for taking her daughter away from her upper class home and bringing her here to this small resort area. The police put the accident down to her being drunk which Gabriel disputes since his wife never drank with the exception of a glass of wine now and then. He demands they investigate which they ignore for the most part.
As all of this is going on Gabriel's construction business is having issues as well. Poor quality product has been placed in some of his sites that he knows he never ordered and he blames one of his workers. Another worker is having financial difficulties and steals the company checkbook. And the woman who runs his office has just lost her father and takes time off to deal with that situation.
Insisting that his wife was not drunk only one officer at the station decides to follow up on the case, a young female officer named Solène (Charlotte Talepaert). Charlotte follows up on various leads and the clues begin to mount. As the series progresses we learn more and more about what happened that night as well as what is going on in the small town of Brittany.
Little doubt is placed in the minds of the viewer that Gabriel is correct that his wife did not cause the accident nor was she drunk. But if not, then why was she there? Why the alcohol? And who was behind it all?
The suspect list grows as two of Rebecca's closest friends begin to act suspicious. One was a woman who Gabriel dated in college and whose husband is on the police force. Another is a hyper real estate agent who definitely has something to hide. When the first is murdered and the second threatened but a gun wielding mobster we begin to decipher what happened. Or do we?
The series is well made and planned out taking it's time to unspool the story we're being told. Not to the point of becoming boring and repetitive but in a manner that allows us to absorb what is going on, to get an idea of what the town is like having fallen on hard times and how the people here are doing what they can to stay above water. It doesn't rush things but it also doesn't belabor them.
In French with subtitles only the performances are well done by all involved. Subtitles tend to take your eyes off of the actors as they perform but if you can keep up you can see the job they're doing. All do so admirably, in particular the troubled Solo as Gabriel. His pain and frustration are on display so well that you can't help but feel the same emotions watching him.
Acorn Media is releasing the series on disc and that's probably the best way to watch it. With only 6 episodes it can easily be binge watched over a weekend. Keeping up with what happens in a show like this, in particular since it's in French, makes binge watching the way to go. Well made, well acted, well written and interesting from start to finish.
The next day her husband Gabriel (Bruno Solo) finds out about the accident and along with his daughter is tossed into a spiral of grief. Rebecca's mother blames it all on Gabriel for taking her daughter away from her upper class home and bringing her here to this small resort area. The police put the accident down to her being drunk which Gabriel disputes since his wife never drank with the exception of a glass of wine now and then. He demands they investigate which they ignore for the most part.
As all of this is going on Gabriel's construction business is having issues as well. Poor quality product has been placed in some of his sites that he knows he never ordered and he blames one of his workers. Another worker is having financial difficulties and steals the company checkbook. And the woman who runs his office has just lost her father and takes time off to deal with that situation.
Insisting that his wife was not drunk only one officer at the station decides to follow up on the case, a young female officer named Solène (Charlotte Talepaert). Charlotte follows up on various leads and the clues begin to mount. As the series progresses we learn more and more about what happened that night as well as what is going on in the small town of Brittany.
Little doubt is placed in the minds of the viewer that Gabriel is correct that his wife did not cause the accident nor was she drunk. But if not, then why was she there? Why the alcohol? And who was behind it all?
The suspect list grows as two of Rebecca's closest friends begin to act suspicious. One was a woman who Gabriel dated in college and whose husband is on the police force. Another is a hyper real estate agent who definitely has something to hide. When the first is murdered and the second threatened but a gun wielding mobster we begin to decipher what happened. Or do we?
The series is well made and planned out taking it's time to unspool the story we're being told. Not to the point of becoming boring and repetitive but in a manner that allows us to absorb what is going on, to get an idea of what the town is like having fallen on hard times and how the people here are doing what they can to stay above water. It doesn't rush things but it also doesn't belabor them.
In French with subtitles only the performances are well done by all involved. Subtitles tend to take your eyes off of the actors as they perform but if you can keep up you can see the job they're doing. All do so admirably, in particular the troubled Solo as Gabriel. His pain and frustration are on display so well that you can't help but feel the same emotions watching him.
Acorn Media is releasing the series on disc and that's probably the best way to watch it. With only 6 episodes it can easily be binge watched over a weekend. Keeping up with what happens in a show like this, in particular since it's in French, makes binge watching the way to go. Well made, well acted, well written and interesting from start to finish.
Not credible
laduqesa22 June 2020
Forensics departments who miss the most basic of clues, a mafia man rampaging through the town seemingly unseeable by and invisible to the cops, characters keeping secrets for no reason when their revelation would have immediately solved the cases of their loved ones' deaths. The list goes on. It's a mishmash of clichéed plot devices that don't really hold water and that simply give an excuse to add another episode.
I admit it, I watched till the end. But we're locked down and there's only so much reading and surfing to be done. I wouldn't have stuck it out otherwise.
I admit it, I watched till the end. But we're locked down and there's only so much reading and surfing to be done. I wouldn't have stuck it out otherwise.
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westsideschl4 November 2018
The only positive I can take away from this is the basic plot line of organized black market fake (China made) knockoffs of big name designer shoes, clothes, handbags (real thing can cost $20,000+), medicines. The major negatives were poorly researched how this crime works from production, to transportation, to syndicates, to local distribution. Poorly displayed police forensics (Large syringe into the victim's neck not seen?), and police investigation. Lots of stupid, if not unrealistic scenarios. Acting - poor, at best. Denouement was the typical least expected are guilty, and to top it off the final scenes were almost laughably cockeyed unconvincing (won't hold water) dumb.
Silly plot and terrible acting!
qui_j22 January 2018
This French series has the usual marks of French TV series. There is little in the way of character development, and the dialog just make little sense to an English speaker. The plot is so confusing in the first few episodes, and the connection between the characters does not become apparent until the last 2 episodes. The acting is really terrible with the usual histrionic behavior and constant shouting that is believed to pass for good acting. It's not a good series.....really!
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