Movie Review: Lupin (2021), A Netflix Series That Everyone Can Watch During MCO

During this MCO 2.0 period, it is better for all people to just stay at home and stay safe with their loved ones. If you ever thinking about what to do while staying safe at home, you can just binge some interesting movies on Netflix.

Talking about Netflix, we have one of the perfect and also recommended movies to be watched there. Worry no more because we already help you to analyze the movie first so that you guys can get the idea of what the movie is about. The movie mentioned is none other than Lupin that got recently aired on Netflix.

What Lupin Is About?

Lupin is inspired by Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief that is Arsène Lupin. The show follows the adventures of Assane Diop, a master of disguise and all manner of civilized criminal behavior, as he tries to clear his own father’s name. Assane and also his father that is Babakar move to Paris from Senegal looking for a better life. Babakar gets work as a chauffeur with the wealthy Pellegrini family.

The head of the family named Hubert is autocratic and brusque, his wife named Anne is kinder and his daughter, Juliette shows a teasing interest in the 14-year-old Assane. When a fabulous necklace that once adorned the doomed queen, Marie Antoinette, and now belonging to the Pellegrini family goes missing, Babakar is suspected. Even without hard evidence, Babakar is put in prison where he hangs himself, and Assane is orphaned.

Twenty-five years later, the queen’s necklace comes up for auction at the Louvre and who should be in on the proceedings but none other than Assane. The necklace is stolen and the police are running in circles trying to find the thief who apparently spirited away the necklace under the highest security. Though police captain Laugier and Lieutenant Sofia follow conventional leads, their colleague, Guedira makes the Lupin connection.

What Can Be Said About Lupin?

It is such a classic heist-movie device that could get repetitive or even predictable but luckily, Lupin with its unique mercifully short five-episode first season and its endlessly charming leading man, executes each reveals with a high degree of finesse. Getting fooled is half the fun with a show like this.

Lupin has the ability to trick an audience with bits of narrative deception and its not too stressful sense of mischief, the show also boasts an intriguing literary backstory that makes it especially pleasurable to dig into. It is proven that Lupin isn’t dark, gritty, or disturbing. But it’s not frivolous, either.

This particular show has it all with a plot twist that will keep you on the edge of your seat and eagerly wanting more at the very end. Lupin is such a perfect weekend watch.

Sources: YouTube Netflix

Adib Mohd

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