I am a keen student of the French language so I keep an eye out on the French channel TV5 MONDE for programmes with subtitles as a fun way of building up my French vocabulary.
I happened upon this series and I am hooked! Even though I cannot understand half (or more) of what is going on! It is a great series and the actors are good. It has a light comedic element so it does not rely on the more ponderous gloom prevalent in The Killing or The Bridge for example but it does tackle tough crime stories and it does it well.
Captain Renoir is a single mother of four who has had to return to work after ten years and she is doing it with aplomb despite the withering and undisguised hauteur of her senior officer who is approximately 10 years her junior. Renoir is admirably impervious and her attitude is juxtaposed humorously well, including frequent interruptions from the range of farm animal ringtones her children have assigned to her phone to identify their calls. I am hoping an English channel commissions the series and provides me with the luxury of English subtitles.
I happened upon this series and I am hooked! Even though I cannot understand half (or more) of what is going on! It is a great series and the actors are good. It has a light comedic element so it does not rely on the more ponderous gloom prevalent in The Killing or The Bridge for example but it does tackle tough crime stories and it does it well.
Captain Renoir is a single mother of four who has had to return to work after ten years and she is doing it with aplomb despite the withering and undisguised hauteur of her senior officer who is approximately 10 years her junior. Renoir is admirably impervious and her attitude is juxtaposed humorously well, including frequent interruptions from the range of farm animal ringtones her children have assigned to her phone to identify their calls. I am hoping an English channel commissions the series and provides me with the luxury of English subtitles.