Brocéliande (TF1): heading to Brittany with Nolwenn Leroy at the center of a high-flying police series

Do you miss Zodiaque, with Claire Keim? The series Brocéliande on TF1 should please you. Head to Brittany with Nolwenn Leroy in the shoes of a heroine who faces the traumas of her past.

Brocéliande, on TF1, what is it about?

In Brocéliande, Nolwenn Leroy plays Fanny, a brilliant biologist with a heavy past. During her youth, she left her native Brittany after the death of her best friend and the suspicions that had been aroused around her responsibility in this terrible death.

While she has since tried as best she can to rebuild herself, her traumas resurface when, 20 years after the tragedy, she receives a package with a billhook covered in dried blood. With this, the morbid mail is accompanied by a letter that accuses her again. It is an emotional shock for the heroine who decides to return to Brocéliande to elucidate this affair once and for all.

Brocéliande: a detective series about a female friendship

You will have understood, the Brocéliande series seems at first to stand out as a worthy heir to the most intense thrillers that TF1 knows how to produce. But beyond thepolice investigationBrocéliande is above all a story of female friendship and the difficulty of grieving after a tragedy. “There are a lot of flashbacks, indeed, in Brocéliande where friendship is central. Women are very present in this series,” Nolwenn Leroy told us in an interview she gave us on the occasion of the screening of the series at the Canneseries Festival.

The same goes for Marie-Anne Chazel, who plays opposite Nolwenn Leroy in the TF1 series and who plays a devoted mother. “This investigation will make Fanny discover lots of things about her story, her past and her loves,” Marie-Anne Chazel explained to us. “And so it talks about a lot of subjects: parenthood, affiliation… The subject is much richer than what we usually see in investigation series,” she told us.

“They have very distinct paths. They have nuances, they have dark sides, secrets and mysteries. Each female character is well developed in this respect,” added Marie-Anne Chazel. Thus, against a backdrop of suspense and criminal affairs, the casting serves above all a great alchemy, highlighting family and friendly relationships through successful female characters.