Dazzling jewel heist from Place Vendome kicks off most entertaining series. Good music.
Then - Lupin - I mean Diop - dies. Very effectively cross-cut is his attempt to communicate with his mother in prison in Senegal. Then she's kidnapped, forcing Diop to pull off outrageous heists. Meanwhile his son Etan Simon and eventually his ex Ludivine Sagnier begin to suspect he isn't dead (after studying a Lupin story, naturally).
When sympathetic cop Soufiane Guerrab puts handcuffs on Smiley Sy, you know he's going to remove them immediately!
With Antoine Gouy as his loyal friend.
In satisfying ending, Lupin's mother escapes without any help from her son. Lots of good cross-cutting as we find out what happened in the past. Seven episodes with an ending that looks like there'll be more.
Sy is one of eight children of Senegalese parents, who raised him in Trappes, a suburb of Paris, in the Muslim faith. He got into films through appearing in comedy shows on the radio, then television, and when approached by young filmmakers Nakache and Toledano agreed to take part in their short film Cec Jours Heureux in 2002. They made four features together, Samba, Intouchables, Tellement Proches and Nos Jours Heureux.
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