2. Julie. Like those Edward Lear Cautionary Poems - Julie, Who Gets Herself into a Very Sticky Situation. Chazelle again, with his trademark long take through the Club as Elliot searches for her.
3. Ariana. Funeral, illustrated by jazz, and speeches. Good.
4. Jude. Our bass player's a junkie, and his ex turns up announcing she's to be married. He witnesses, then takes them to a wedding where the band's gigging. Annoying Julie has moved into Maja's. Co-written with Rachel De-Lahay, Rebecca Lanciewicz
5. Talking of who... Maja. Gets offered another gig by Tcheky Karyo, Elliott gets himself more and more in the shit by not simply telling the police what's going on. The band is finally offered a recording deal.
6. Sim. Tries to get money for gran to go to Mecca - fails. Ends up singing his own song at the club with Julie backing. Written with Hamid Hlioua
7. Katerina. Why has our drummer been so taciturn, so busy - why did she get involved with the crime gang? This explains all. Written with Phillip Howze, Rebecca Lanciewicz.
8. Untitled conclusion has Elliot finally going to the police, making it good with Julie, and finally performing again (but only with her support), before the club is fire-bombed.
André Holland (Moonlight, The Knick) is Elliot, Joanna Kulig the only name I knew. Amandla Stenberg is Julie, Tahat Rahim (Farid), Leila Behkti his wife. Randy Kerber is the composer. orchestrator and keyboard player who helped prepare Ryan Gosling for La La Land, and the rest of the band also comprises real life musicians Ludovic Louis (trumpet), Lada Obradovic (her solo drumming is amazing), Jowee Omicil (sax) and Damian Nueva Cortes (bass), with many of them never having been on screen before.
The whole thing came about on the back of the Whiplash debut when Chazelle was approached (by Six Feet Under producer Alan Poul) to do something set in a jazz club in Paris - thereby foreshadowing La La Land in two ways. He's an exec producer. Poul in turn had been contacted by music producer Glen Ballard, who had already assembled the band.
The whole thing came about on the back of the Whiplash debut when Chazelle was approached (by Six Feet Under producer Alan Poul) to do something set in a jazz club in Paris - thereby foreshadowing La La Land in two ways. He's an exec producer. Poul in turn had been contacted by music producer Glen Ballard, who had already assembled the band.
This is the Paris on the wrong side of the péripherique, very multicultural, amplified with good background sound.
Photographed by Julien Poupard (four episodes), Eric Gautier (the first two).
James Baldwin's 'The Price of the Ticket' is a series of articles about the experience of being black in America - he had written some of them in Paris.
Loved Elliot's line: "One day I woke up and saw I had left myself behind."
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