Frapuccino, the award-winning French series that makes you laugh with gunshots, blood, chases, thugs and a pinch of love

Two guys who don’t know each other arrange a meeting on the street. They have a hostile face. “You’re too young for a job like this,” one says to the other. In the next scene, they are seen carrying a leather trunk. What’s inside? What is the next destination? Where are you going with that Twingo?

Here’s how the first episode of FrappuccinoThat can be seen on the free Flixxo platform.

The award-winning French series, created by the artistic collective Attention Fragile, It is based on three peculiar characters: Paolo (Pierre-Emmanuel Parlato), great conversationalist and unsubtle Don Juan; Cyril (Jules Poucet), a chronically ill person with a troubled past who needs to beat someone three times a day, and Amélie (Mathilde Bourbin), a depressed woman who finds no comfort in her miserable life.

The story of a trunk

The idea for the production came to the screenwriter, Bourbin herself, who heard a story from actor friends who They had to carry a trunk everywhere for a show they were performing.; This gave rise to funny situations, which after some meetings with the directors he ended up turning into a series.

This unlikely collaboration of personalities – and the trunk as an omnipresent excuse in all episodes – is the most interesting point of Frappuccino.

The series has gunshots, blood, chases, criminals ready for anything – even more evil than this desperate trident – and a pinch of love. But he never leaves aside his main objective: to make people laugh. Which, of course, is no small thing.

The scenes are generally fun, crazy and with the necessary doses of road-movie style tension through cities, streets and towns. And, of course, they have the added ingredient of the three daily beatings that Cyril needs to stay more or less on track.

“I like the drive, the adrenaline, losing my mind and feeling my knuckles cracking against my cheekbones,” he says to justify his behavior of only exercising at eight in the morning, at noon at noon and at eight in the evening.

The series never becomes solemn and sometimes enjoys laughing at itself. Perhaps the most successful character is that of Paolo (Parlato), who plays a decadent and fun seducer; a kind of Italian blackmailer-thug who is very easy to love from the first minutes of the opening episode.

While the episodes are very short, from the sixth onwards the adrenaline and explosion decrease slightly. The series loses some strength not due to the poverty of the interpretations or some situations, but due to unsuccessful jokes and discontinuous dialogues that take away the shine from the comedy.

Despite this misstep and perhaps thanks to the brevity of the proposal, Frappuccino AND affable and sometimes extravagant. In many passages it achieves its goal of making people smile. And in the background, as if quietly, the theme of the characters’ loneliness emerges; all boiling creatures, stunned by the violence of urban life and on the verge of exploding.

File

Qualification: Well.

Type: Comedy.

Protagonists: Jules Poucet, Mathilde Bourbin and Pierre-Emmanuel Parlato.

Creator: Attention Fragile artistic collective.

Problem: Flixxo (free platform for series and short films).

Duration: two seasons (the first with 11 episodes and the second with 7). In both cases 10 minutes each.

Just because? It’s an affable comedy with short episodes, with eccentric characters and good performances.