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It was necessary to allow a century after the end of the genocide of the Amerindians so that the Indian cemetery became the symbol of the bad American conscience, through the cinema (Amityville. The Devil’s Housefrom Stuart Rosenberg, 1979) and literature (Simetierrefrom Stephen King, 1983). But the image is quite striking – the spirits of past victims take revenge on the descendants of their murderers – so that the use is universal. It will serve as a guide during the first two episodes of the series created by Thomas Bidegain and Thibault Vanhulle, while one still wonders what, apart from the scalp of the victims, links the murder, nowadays, of a former communist mayor of a municipality on the banks of the Etang de Berre (Bouches-du-Rhône) and that, perpetrated in 1995 in the same fictitious city Péranne, of the imam of the local mosque.
Only the title of this series, very black despite a sun which is usually used to light up the early evenings, then makes it possible to understand what pushes Lidia Achour (Mouna Soualem), today a senior order for the maintenance of order (she is in the running for the Paris police prefecture), to be returned to the places of her first investigation. We guess that yesterday’s dead are not only the victims of the 1990s. We even feel, even before the conflict is named, that all the characters suffer from the consequences of the Algerian war, even more painful on the banks of the Mediterranean than elsewhere in France.
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