The thriller coming to Amazon Prime Video this weekend

Amazon Prime Video try, by all means, to position itself as the second alternative to Netflix ahead of other competitors such as Disney + or hbo max. All to get up to speed and get ahead of a Netflix that has been signing for a couple of quarters some disastrous exercises of loss of subscribers. Given the abundance of a large percentage of original content, Amazon prefers to acquire a catalog based on commercial associations with producers and distributors. Also helps the acquisition in 2021 of the Metro Goldwyn Mayerwhich has allowed the company to streaming have almost all installments of the James Bond franchise. Following that trail of success, Amazon premieres a suspenseful movie this weekend: The perfect man.

The synopsis of The perfect man is as follows: “Mathieu is 25 years old and I continued as always, dreaming of being a prestigious writer. Despite all his efforts, he fails to publish anything and in the meantime, he earns his living by loading furniture for a relative’s moving company. Fate will offer him an incredible opportunity, when he finds the manuscript of a lonely old man who has just died. Putting aside his initial reluctance, he ends up publishing it under his name, becoming the new promise of French literature, with the attention of an entire country, which expects him to write his second novel. His life will then begin to be a web of lies to preserve his secret.”

This French thriller was released in 2015. In that year, critics praised the filmmaker’s work Yann Gozlan and its protagonist Pierre Niney. Gozlan debuted 5 years before with the irregular horror story captives and in 2017 he shot burn-outwhich has recently received a Spanish remake titled Centaur. The critics have once again surrendered to the French director with black box of 2020 but without a doubt, The perfect man they were his first steps into the realm of storytelling.

In addition to Niney, the cast of the production is made up of by Ana Girardot, Ludovic Berthillot, Valeria Cavalli, Marc Barbe, André Marcon, Laurent Grévill and Thibault Vinçon. The script is in charge of Gozlan himself and the screenwriters Guillaume Lemans and Grégoire Vigneron. The Single Man is a perfect weekend thriller that is sure to keep viewers glued to their seats until it is finished.