Amazon Prime Video released the trailer, the official poster and presented new photos of a private matterthe original series starring Jean Reno e Aura Garridowhich opens on Friday 16 September on the platform.
The French star of Spanish parents -Known worldwide for his action roles in The perfect killer or ronin– returns to work in a Spanish serial production after his participation in Who killed Sara?from Netflix.
While The up and coming Spanish actress landed her first major starring role after major roles in the series The ministry of time Y The innocent.
in the key of intriguing costumed detective drama with hints of comedy and suspensethe fiction consists of eight episodes and is produced by Bambú Producciones in collaboration with Amazon.
Teresa Fernandez-Valdes is the showrunner and co-creator with Gema R. Neira and Ramón Campos, the creative team behind several successes which constituted that global boom for Spanish series such as Grand Hotel, Grand Reserve, Velvet Y the girls of the thread.
the official plot
According to the official synopsis of Amazon Prime Video, the story takes place in the late 1940s, in Galicia. Garrido plays Marina Quiroga, a daring young upper-class woman with the soul of a police officer, who sets out to hunt down the serial killer who has been haunting the city for months.
does it with the help of his faithful butlerHéctor (Reno), a discreet and helpful man, whose sensitivity and audacity always place him at the center of the investigation.
“Together they will struggle against all obstacles to reach her, and neither the gender prejudices of the time, nor the resistance of the new commissioner or the attempts of Marina’s mother to marry her will prevent them from finally discovering the truth,” says the Prime Video summary.
The distribution of a private matter is completed with Angela Molina, alex garcia (Wartime, riot), Gorka Otxoa (Velvet), Tito Valverde (Slaughterhouse), Irene Montala (Boat), Pablo Miller (Plague) and Andrés Velencoso (Velvet Collection, Edha), among others.
The butler of a bright fairy tale
According to the Spanish media, a private matter is “a bright and funny tale of crimes and mysteries”where a young woman, the daughter of a missing police commissioner, wants to follow in his footsteps and prove that she can be a better investigator than her brother, her father’s natural heir.
In an interview with the EFE agency, held as part of the latest Monte Carlo Television Festival, the multifaceted Reno said he considered himself lucky for the variety of roles he was able to play in his life.
In this case, he plays Héctor, the Quiroga’s butler, a wealthy family who lost their father a few years ago, an intellectual police commissioner with feminist ideas in fake 1940’s Galicia, whose only concern is to care for and protect his little girl. daughter, Marina, who He took away from his father the same curiosity, courage and ability to deduce.
“I’ve been very lucky in my life with all the roles I’ve been able to develop, too it seems that the door, and several windows, still have them open“Reno said in that interview with the Spanish agency.
Reno ensures that the fluidity of the protagonist couple of the series comes from Aura Garrido. “This is like a wedding, like a dance, like life. If your wife doesn’t talk much or has a slower pace, you need to keep up. It’s all ‘fireworks’, so I provide the counterpoint and put the brakes on“, he reflected.
Her character, Héctor, also takes care of Marina’s mother (Ángela Molina) who sees “how her house collapses after losing her husband, but she wants to keep up appearances”.
The series maintains a certain adventurous and mysterious comic book tone, peppered with a feminist message. not typical of the time when the action should take place.
But Reno finds it “interesting”, because he believes that “it is good to talk about these things”, even if within a fable, or a story like a private matter.
Source: Clarin
