The Undoing (TF1): An Effective Thriller With Nicole Kidman And Hugh Grant -

TF1 offers this Wednesday 5 Januarythe first episodes of Undo it, an American mini-series with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant not to be missed. Let’s explain why.

It is a miniseries in six episodes not to be missed that arrives on TF1 on Wednesday 5 January: Undo it, with Nicole Kidman and Hugh Grant. David E. Kelley (to whom we owe Ally McBeal, but also Little big lies)find your favorite actress. In the WASP (Chic America on the East Coast) universe, inside a privileged home, the author develops his favorite themes: doubt, lying, pretensions. But instead of breaking the plate of good society, he is interested in what at the same time makes the cement and wear and tear of a couple: trust. The life of Grace Sachs (Nicole Kidman), a renowned therapist married to Jonathan (Hugh Grant), turns upside down the day her husband disappears, when her mistress is found brutally murdered. After so many years of union, do you really know him? Director Susanne Bier (Bird box) immerses the viewer in the cottony world of Grace’s nightmare, a ghostly figure whose gaze films a frightened deer and Jonathan’s, alternately bright and dark.

La Desfer it owes its effectiveness to its relentless suspense and the play of its actors. Ageless face, fixed features, slender figure that looks as fragile as glass … the physique of Nicole Kidman it adds to the anguishing nature of the defeat of this woman, of whom we do not know whether she loses ground or, on the contrary, lives one of her rare moments of lucidity. With his supposed wrinkles and pouting, Hugh Grant he breaks his romantic image, destabilizes and plays with his charm distilling something disturbing, in phase with his character as a man suspected of a terrible murder, but who nevertheless seems more sympathetic than his wife, cold and indecipherable .

Both in form and substance, La Desfer is a great game of idiots. In the relations between the characters, and in the forged bond with the public. That he is in the same place as Grace, not knowing if the charming Jonathan is an overly ideal suspect, the victim of a conspiracy, or if he is manipulating us as he does with his wife. One of the strong points of this fiction is that it does not leave the viewer passive: he participates, he gets involved, he constructs his opinion. Innocence or guilt? We oscillate on the twists and turns of a plot that catches and keeps us in suspense, until an incredible finale.