Clémentine Célarié is the headliner of the “RAM” event series on M6, in the role of a bloody justicier with Alzheimer’s.
From this Tuesday, February 18, at 9:10 p.m., M6 broadcasts the 4 episodes of RAMa new French fiction written by Anne-Gaëlle Daval, Hélène Lombard, Maax Thuvertie and Laurent Burtin, and produced by the surgical director Arnaud Malherbe, known and recognized for his work on Chiefs Or Moloch. And like these two references, RAM should be a series as captivating as they are inhabiting, in its scenario as much as in its form.
For this mini-series, M6 summoned Clémentine Célariéaccustomed to the small screen with sometimes unequal appearances. But it would be wrong to stop at this cast rather agreed for television. The actress embodies Esther Lefèvre, a retiree who learns that she has a beginning of Alzheimer’s. A diagnosis that paradoxically makes a terrible secret to the surface, buried in the depths of her memory when she was a clerk in the service of a judge. Before the disease wins it completely, Esther decides to do justice itself, radically.
Extracting ancient archives a list of names, the heroine of RAM Then begins to eliminate one by one the people who appear there, turning into a litter as determined as it is clumsy. Meanwhile, Célia Le Goff, a young police captain camped by Élisa Erka, will investigate this series of murders who will also lead her to face the buried demons of her past.
An unknown facet of Alzheimer’s in a scenario like no other
With this original story, RAM Boundly manages to approach serious subjects with offbeat and moving treatment. The scenario intelligently explores the meanders of Alzheimer’s disease, capable of erasing a memory of the most basic and bringing in burnt memories or unexpected capacities. Through the journey of a serial killeuse not like the others, sometimes a fighting, imperfect mother, a loving grandmother or a protective friend, the series keeps in suspense until the final outcome.
After an already rich career, Clémentine Célarié can be one of her biggest roles here (on television anyway). Particularly well directed, she gives an overwhelming interpretation of a woman losing foot, but determined to go to the end of her revenge, at all costs.
What do criticisms say about RAM ?
RAM has already accumulated criticism, most often positive despite some more mixed opinions. Le Parisien salutes “a production [qui] shows an invigorating audacity in the French television landscape “, Le Figaro” an intriguing object and, in the end, attractive “and humanity a” series, in the form of an thriller, at the same time endearing, black and surprising [qui a] The immense merit, in the darkness of this absolute revenge, to deal with the place of women in a society thought for men “.
More temperate although positive, Télé Loisirs still points to a writing which “suffers from some facilities and shortcuts, mainly to make the plot more effective”. More severe as always, Télérama believes that “despite Clémentine Célarié, this thriller fails to touch”. The fault of “a clumsy scenario, which fails to move by dint of doing it”, despite “some rare eccentric swolders of director Arnaud Malherbe”.