The Accident

Original title: L'accident

TV Series
2016–2017

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Construction boss Gabriel Cauvy lives with his wife and daughter in a picturesque village in Brittany, France. A mysterious car accident has bizarre circumstances and the search for the trut... Read allConstruction boss Gabriel Cauvy lives with his wife and daughter in a picturesque village in Brittany, France. A mysterious car accident has bizarre circumstances and the search for the truth is more dangerous than he could have imagined.Construction boss Gabriel Cauvy lives with his wife and daughter in a picturesque village in Brittany, France. A mysterious car accident has bizarre circumstances and the search for the truth is more dangerous than he could have imagined.

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Bruno Solo

Gabriel Cauvy

• 2016

Charlotte Talpaert

Solène

• 2016

Rose Montron

Luna Cauvy

• 2016

Charlotte Des Georges

Sabine

• 2016

Marc Citti

Pascal Pamart

• 2016

Erick Deshors

Virgil

• 2016

Romane Portail

Anne Clermont

• 2016

Frédéric Andrau

Denis Clermont

• 2016

Gabrielle Atger

Iris Lafargue

• 2016

Vincent Furic

Pierre-Yves Lafargue

• 2016

Jean-Pierre Becker

Major Lalande

• 2016

Matthias Jacquin

Théo Soares

• 2016

Bing Yin

• 2016

Carlo Brandt

Destouches

• 2016

Serge Larivière

Bérenger Oeustermans

• 2016

Béatrice Agenin

Florence

• 2016

Arnaud Stéphan

Gendarme #2

• 2016

Hector Manuel

Gendarme Julien

• 2016

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7doylefamily-43054

Entertaining

Entertaining enough for binging. A few weak parts in the plot development but the characters carry the story over them. The small French beach town location allows for a limited cast that is believable. Subtitle translations don't interfere and the occasional inaccurate translations are minor. Well wort watching.

10ericrochard

Excellent serie about life in a sleepy seaside resort

If you liked Broadchurch or Hinterland you will appreciate L'Accident. Brittany is not England but the characters and the plot portray well the despair of the French provincial middle class. The characters are real, you can spend sometime in Brest, Quimper or Rennes and you will this mix of people struggling to get by and enjoy their life.

2qui_j

Silly plot and terrible acting!

This French series has the usual marks of French TV series. There is little in the way of character development, and the dialog just make little sense to an English speaker. The plot is so confusing in the first few episodes, and the connection between the characters does not become apparent until the last 2 episodes. The acting is really terrible with the usual histrionic behavior and constant shouting that is believed to pass for good acting. It's not a good series.....really!

8kennprop

A good series.

A 6 part mystery crime tale set on the French Coast -Brittany. Great location shots in a seaside town. The off season tourist town reminds me of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.!!! Evidently the economy is bad and people have to resort to certain scams to make ends meet. This plot has many twists and turns before it all comes together. I am. not familiar with any of the actors but they carried their parts pretty well. French productions seem to have great camera work. This one has some great shots. A six part series works well if u watch a couple per night .

7PeterHerrmann

Kept me interested, but flawed in many ways .....

Implausible most of the time; on the other hand, most mystery crime series are, and we usually just suspend disbelief for awhile. For most of this series the stretch of reality was not too bad; but the resolution at the end was pretty hard to swallow (had a certain logic to it, but .... I won't spoil it). But I was curious how it would resolve, so give it a slightly above average rating (too often with other series I just lose interest and cease to care). Perhaps a 3 or 4 episode series, rather than 6 episodes, would have been better.

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Shot in early 2016, the series was meant to air in November of that year in France and did premiere at a TV festival in September, but its broadcast was delayed first to spring 2017, then November 2017 before finally sticking to May 2018. These successive delays were due to the French presidential elections and the airing of two programs also starring lead Bruno Solo on sister channels France 2 and France 5: Deux flics sur les docks (2011) and The Real War of Thrones (2017). As such, despite being a French production the series only aired in France long after being broadcast in Belgium and even the USA.