Prepare to board. France 2 will kick off the year 2025 with “Rivages”, an ambitious series mixing fantasy and human drama. From the Monday January 6 at 9:05 p.m. (and in full on france.tv from December 26), viewers will be able to immerse themselves in a plot where the mystery of the sea depths rubs shoulders with personal dramas.
An immersive setting for a unique sensory experience
In Fécamp, a town in Seine-Maritime marked by the sea and its traditions, the disappearance of a trawler upsets the balance of an already fragile community. Abigail, played with intensity by Fleur Geffrier (“Les Gouttes de Dieu”), returns to her hometown as an oceanographer commissioned by Ifremer. Consumed by a past family tragedy, she is confronted with inexplicable marine phenomena which make any fishing impossible. These disturbances push her to consider a new hypothesis: what if an unknown presence threatened the fragile balance between man and nature?
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The series, directed by David Hourrègue (“Germinal”), transcends the codes of the fantasy genre to become an ecological fable. Hailed by the public at the Montréal Séries Festival 2024, where it won the Grand Prix, “Rivages” questions our relationship to the environment and the sea. More than a simple thriller, the series is an invitation to rethink our link to nature and rediscover hope in a changing world. Supported by an immersive staging and an original soundtrack by Audrey Ismaël, it is also a unique sensory experience. The ocean is filmed as a character in its own right, both protective and threatening. With a cast including Guillaume Labbé, Thierry Godard, and Jean-Marc Barr (revealed by “Le Grand Bleu”), it promises an exploration that is as visual as it is emotional.
In a note of intent, the creators of the series, Jonathan Rio and Monica Rattazzi explain: “'Rivages'” aspires to explore our relationship to the sea (…) By situating our story in the world of the fishermen that we both know, we wish to give an overview of the singularity of the world of those who stand up early to find an increasingly rare treasure. Those who live to the rhythm of the sea and its anger. underlines the duo of screenwriters, who recall that “the concerns of sailors have shifted from survival at sea to survival on land.” “And to embody the distress in the face of this changing world, we chose the metaphorical power offered by the genre of the fantastic film: in 'Shore' an anomaly in the sea reveals to us that something is no longer right, that a danger threatens us…”
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