{"id":33818,"date":"2021-06-15T05:30:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-15T03:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/?p=33818"},"modified":"2021-06-13T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T15:09:07","slug":"lupin-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/french\/lupin-redux\/","title":{"rendered":"Lupin redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s back! After a brief six month break, Season Two of the series that reintroduced Marcel Leblanc’s gentleman cambrioleur<\/em> to the world<\/a> has landed on Netflix.<\/p>\n

Lupin<\/h3>\n

Season One’s short five-episode run ended with a real cliffhanger1<\/a><\/sup>According to the site FranceTerm<\/a>, the proper French term for a cliffhanger<\/em> is un suspens … <\/em>but it doesn’t seem to be very commonly used<\/a>.<\/span>. Without giving anything away, I’ll just say that\u00a0la saison deux<\/strong> wastes no time diving right back into the action, staring off with a very dramatic first episode.<\/p>\n

As someone who grew up reading the novellas, I was thrilled to see how, according to this New York Times article<\/a> at least, the series has led to renewed interest around the world in the books that inspired the series. Since the books are now in the\u00a0 public domain, you can read them for yourself if you’d like thanks to Project Gutenberg. There is sadly currently only one version available in the original French<\/a>, but there are many English translations<\/a> available.<\/p>\n

The fun promotional video below, in which the actor – and start of Lupin! – Omar Sy poses as un c<\/strong>olleur d’affiches <\/span>dans le M\u00e9tro,<\/span> pokes fun at the underlying concept of many of Ars\u00e8ne Lupin’s adventures (that he operates more or less in the open but always under the radar). As Sy says in the narration: “En portant la bonne tenue, au bon endroit, au bon moment, il est capable de se faire passer pour n’importe qui, n’importe o\u00f9<\/a>, pour arriver \u00e0 ses fins.<\/strong>“2<\/a><\/sup>By wearing the right outfit, in the right place, at the right time, he is able to pass for anyone, anywhere, to achieve his goals.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n