A actor on the comeback in search of love as he approaches his 50th birthday? On paper, we didn’t really believe it. It was without counting on the talent and generosity of Fred Hazan, screenwriter, director and hero of the series who serves us on a set six short episodes of 26 minutes full of humor and tenderness. After ” Seventh heaven “OCS offers us this new French nugget put online this Thursday.
In “Need Love”, Fred Hazan (“ Ten percent “”, “Funny”) slips into the skin of Marco Delgado, alias Marc Guttman, an actor who has trouble finding his place in and who, to supplement his income, officiates as a bouncer in a nightclub Parisian. A somewhat naive bachelor, neither happy nor sad, who drowns his melancholy in alcohol. This sad routine comes to an end when, after several strange and overwhelming illnesses, the doctors’ verdict falls: Marco needs love or he will die!
For the first time in his life, the hero has no choice but to give meaning to his life. And here he is who arrives at his adoptive parents with whom he was not angry but whom he has hardly seen since his choice to get into . He is definitely not lucky, his father died two hours earlier, just before his arrival.
Far from superhero clichés
Faced with his mother, fantastic and hilarious Clémentine Célarié as a widow not at all grieving and as an equally disarming mother, he does not bend. Without flinching, he swallows the “we hardly ever talked about you with your father”, “I got tired of you quite quickly” or other kindnesses. We laugh a lot but we are also very moved by this man launched in this quest for love. ” And you? Do you like me ? he asks her. “How do you want me to answer such a question! she replies.
When a 17-year-old girl comes to his house telling him that she is his daughter, Marco sees himself cured. He loves her immediately with an unconditional paternal love. But life is obviously much more complicated. Crazy and moving, the series is devoured in one go. It is carried by a fine line-up of actors, Gerard Jugnot as a actor’s agent, Laëtitia Vercken, as a confident roommate, or even the young Anouk Villemin.
“Need for love” is also a very beautiful portrait of a man. A lost and very endearing fifty-something to whom we can only wish well. Far from the clichés of superheroes that we find throughout the series. A nice guy with whom we return in all directions the eternal question “can we live without love? “.
” Need love », romantic comedy (2022) by and with Fred Hazan, Laëtitia Vercken Maxence Danet-Fauvel, Clémentine Célarié, Gérard Jugnot… 6 episodes of 26 minutes.