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Lupin - Chapter 10
episode 2.5
France 2021
produced by George Kay, Isabelle Degeorges for Gaumont/Netflix
directed by Hugo Gélin
starring Omar Sy, Antoine Gouy, Stefan Crepon, Soufiane Guerrab, Vincent Londez, Shirine Boutella, Hervé Pierre, Vincent Garanger, Ludivine Sagnier, Etan Simon, Clotilde Hesme, Adama Niane, Marie Barraud, Salim Kechiouche, Nicolas Wanczycki, Aloysia Delahaut, Franck Mercadal, Sarah Gélin, Marion Creusvaux, Christian Julien, Guillaume Mélanie, Fargass Assandé, Mamadou Haidara, Mathieu Lamboley, Sieme Miladi, Mustapha Benameur
written by George Kay, François Uzan, Sumerah Srivastav, created by George Kay, François Uzan, based on the character Arsène Lupin, created by Maurice Leblanc
TV-series Lupin, Arsène Lupin
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Assane's (Omar Sy) arch-nemesis Pellegrini (Hervé Pierre) is holding
his big fundraiser tonight, a very exclusive gala for the richest of the
rich that is as well guarded as can be, so naturally Assane just has to
make an appearance there. Now fortunately, he had one of his associates,
Courbet (Stefan Crepon), infiltrate Pellegrini's inner circle as financial
advisor, and as such he's responsible to bring the computer equipment
needed for collecting the donations to the venue - and so it's natural for
Assane to get into one of the computer boxes and slip through security.
Once inside, Assane manages to get to Pellegrini unnoticed, force a
confession out of him, then give his pursuers a slip. Assane appears on
stage at the fundraiser, makes his accusations against Pellegrini, then
has his accomplices Courbet and Ferel (Antoine Gouy) cut off all the
lights at the venue so he can make his escape - and he easily succeeds in
that dressing up as a fire marshal and ultimately using river Seine as his
escape route. In the meantime, he has seen to it that his chief pursuers
at the police, Guedira (Soufiane Guerrab), Laugier (Vincent Londez) and
Belkacem (Shirine Boutella) get plenty of incriminating material on not
only Pellegrini but also his accomplice within the police, chief of police
Dumont (Vincent Garanger), enough for the two of them to be arrested ... It's
well-paced, there's plenty of action, and there are some fun twists, so
it's a pretty entertaining episode - just not the finale the series would
have deserved. Thing is, the best episodes of Lupin (and
even more so the Arsène Lupin novels the series is loosely based
on) feature daring and spectacular crimes that work because they were
meticulously planned and executed with clockwork precision - and that
simply doesn't seem to be the case here, it's too much Assane just
outrunning rather than outwitting his pursuers, or just using the same old
tricks he has used before that his pursuers should have grown wise to. And
his ultimate crime is really lacking in elegance, as is the episode as a
whole really. Again, it's not bad, just less than one would have expected.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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