(FRA)
Série saoudienne (ou du moins, faite comme si elle se passait en Arabie saoudite ... Je soupçonne encore bien que certains acteurs viennent d'autres pays du Golfe, surtout les actrices, ne faisant qu'imiter l'accent saoudien, mais je ne suis pas experte encore à ce point pour distinguer un vrai accent d'une imitation). Diffusée sur MBC (la rivale de Rotana, si je suis bien ... Deux noms de bouquets de chaînes satellites, saoudiennes toutes les deux, proposant le même genre de programmes). Et re-regardable sur leur site à volonté, ici.
Sujet : la vie des employés d'un call-center, mais un call center ici où les clients appellent pour des services divers et variés (appeler un réparateur de machine à laver, réserver un billet d'avion ...), pas du tout ce qu'on entend nous par "call-center" et leurs pubs téléphoniques intempestives. La série tourne donc autour de la vie du patron, de ses deux aides, et de huit employés : quatre hommes et quatre femmes, tous jeunes, et bien sûr séparés (on est en Arabie saoudite, point de folies scénaristiques !) mais du coup, c'est intéressant, pour une étrangère comme moi, de voir toutes les stratégies des hommes et des femmes pour passer au delà de ces barrières imposées par la culture, pour interagir ... Ils ne paraissent guère plus "handicapés" que nous par leurs barrières qui nous paraissent inimaginables, mais au contraire, on voit que comme dans toute société, il y a des règles, plus ou moins respectées, et que les gens font avec, et vivent leur vie malgré tout. Bref, une série qui vaut bien pour moi n'importe quel livre anthropologique.
Série traitée sur le ton de la comédie réaliste et que je trouve d'une très bonne qualité à plusieurs niveaux : le jeu d'acteur est naturel, la façon de filmer (là non plus, je ne suis pas experte, mais je ne peux que comparer avec les autres) très bien faite, du moins assez "moderne" pour ne pas être ennuyeuse, les scénarios ne sont pas trop bêtes, simples mais réalistes ... Le plus dur pour moi était que je n'avais encore jamais vraiment suivi de série du Golfe, malgré mes heures de drogue passive à Rotana Khaleejiyya (que je mets en bruit de fond dès que je peux pour m'habituer à l'accent).
Mais le dialecte du Golfe et ses variantes étant mon préféré de tous, j'étais doublement motivée pour tenter de comprendre cette série : je ne sais pourquoi je suis toujours la seule à le trouver beau. La plupart du temps c'est l'égyptien qui est mis sur un piédestal, mais leur prononciation du "j" (ج) en "g" m'insupporte, ou encore le syro-libanais, qui semble véhiculé la même notion de sophistication et de "haute culture"... Le dialecte du Golfe a l'air d'avoir une réputation de dialecte "de campagnard" (enfin, bédouin pour le coup), peu raffiné à l'image du cliché de l'arabe du Golfe assis sur ses dollars et son puits de pétrole, intéressé par les couleurs criardes, les objets kitsch et le bling-bling de façon générale. Mais rien à faire, c'est le plus doux à mes oreilles ... Peut-être parce que c'est l'équivalent arabe de mon accent franc-comtois natal ?
(ENG)
Saudi TV series (or at least the story takes place there, I wouldn't be surprised that the series were shot elsewhere with actors from other countries "faking' the saudi accent, but well, I'm not an expert on that). Airing on one of the two big satellite group channels, here MBC, (the other one being Rotana) both saudi-owned. You can watch all of their TV series on their website here.
The story : the day-to-day life of employees and their employer in a call-center (not the ones we're used to, with their intempestive calls, here a call-center is a service center : people call them to buys a plane ticket, or check in a hotel, or getting an appointment with some houseware reparator fro the dishwasher, etc). Eight young employees, 4 men and 4 women (not in the same room of course, it's Saudi Arabia). The whole series is made into a realistic comedy worth many anthropological books on the country : you see how people deal with their lives despite what as a foreigner we can see as impossible social rules (especially the segregation between men and women), they find other ways to deal with it and they don't look worse off, as a general rule, than us.
The TV series is of a good quality too, as compared to many other : the scenario, if not complex, is realistic enough, the actors play well, and the filming is quite modern. The hardest part for me was to understand everything, because I'm not used to the Gulf dialect - but since it's my favorite, I'm trying hard to learn it in my spare time.
I don't know why people usually say the egyptian dialect is the best, it sounds nice alright, but their way of saying the ج (j) as a "g" is unbearable to me for some reason ... And the other accent which has the same "high-culture" and sophisticated image is the levantine dialect, and it's nicer to me ears than the egyptian one, but the Gulf one (ones?) are definitely the best for me. And contrary to the other two, they do pronounce the ق one way or another (usually a heavy "g") and I appreciate that. I appreciate not disparaging that letter, it's a beautiful one, and as a foreigner, it definitely helps understanding the words ! Anyway, it seems the Gulf dialect has the same image than the "countryside" dialects in french and english (bedouin then, in arab countries), maybe made worse by the never-ending cliché of the too-rich Gulf arab and his blatant lack of taste in everything (king of the bling bling) ... but who cares, their accent still sounds nice. Rambling on to say that I'm happy to have found a TV series that's funny, well-made, and with the "right" accent all at the same time !
(ENG)
Saudi TV series (or at least the story takes place there, I wouldn't be surprised that the series were shot elsewhere with actors from other countries "faking' the saudi accent, but well, I'm not an expert on that). Airing on one of the two big satellite group channels, here MBC, (the other one being Rotana) both saudi-owned. You can watch all of their TV series on their website here.
The story : the day-to-day life of employees and their employer in a call-center (not the ones we're used to, with their intempestive calls, here a call-center is a service center : people call them to buys a plane ticket, or check in a hotel, or getting an appointment with some houseware reparator fro the dishwasher, etc). Eight young employees, 4 men and 4 women (not in the same room of course, it's Saudi Arabia). The whole series is made into a realistic comedy worth many anthropological books on the country : you see how people deal with their lives despite what as a foreigner we can see as impossible social rules (especially the segregation between men and women), they find other ways to deal with it and they don't look worse off, as a general rule, than us.
The TV series is of a good quality too, as compared to many other : the scenario, if not complex, is realistic enough, the actors play well, and the filming is quite modern. The hardest part for me was to understand everything, because I'm not used to the Gulf dialect - but since it's my favorite, I'm trying hard to learn it in my spare time.
I don't know why people usually say the egyptian dialect is the best, it sounds nice alright, but their way of saying the ج (j) as a "g" is unbearable to me for some reason ... And the other accent which has the same "high-culture" and sophisticated image is the levantine dialect, and it's nicer to me ears than the egyptian one, but the Gulf one (ones?) are definitely the best for me. And contrary to the other two, they do pronounce the ق one way or another (usually a heavy "g") and I appreciate that. I appreciate not disparaging that letter, it's a beautiful one, and as a foreigner, it definitely helps understanding the words ! Anyway, it seems the Gulf dialect has the same image than the "countryside" dialects in french and english (bedouin then, in arab countries), maybe made worse by the never-ending cliché of the too-rich Gulf arab and his blatant lack of taste in everything (king of the bling bling) ... but who cares, their accent still sounds nice. Rambling on to say that I'm happy to have found a TV series that's funny, well-made, and with the "right" accent all at the same time !
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