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Canneseries Entry ‘1985’: A Coming of Age Tale That Explores the Origins of the Modern Era

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John Hopewell Chief International CorrespondentThe latest from Belgium’s Eyeworks Film & TV Drama and director Wouter Bouvijn – who teamed on Canneseries hits “The Twelve” and “Red Light” – “1985,” sold by Studiocanal, works on multiple levels as a coming-of-age series.Two young Gendarmarie police recruits, Marc and Franky, and his sis Vicky, a law student and pirate radio DJ, move to Brussels.

They are soon caught up in police corruption – insider drug trading, heavy fire arms robbery – and the rise of  the brutal Nijvel gang.Created by Willem Wallyn (“Albatros”), this is the coming-of-age story of three unbreakable friends loss of innocence, and that of a nation in its leaders.It is also an origins tale, of the forging of the modern age.

Belgium’s distrust of its forces of law and order and political class rankles to this day, shared now with other countries, as does its politics of confrontation which Vicky denounces in an on-air monolog in Ep.

1. “The Twelve” won best screenplay at Canneseries in 2019, “Red Light” best acting a year later. So expectations for “1985” run high.Variety talked to Peter Bouckaert, “1985’s” producer at Eyeworks, one of Belgium’s biggest producers, before “1985” world premieres in competition on April 3 at Canneseries.George Orwell’s “1984” talked about 1948. “1985,” one senses, looks forward in time.

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