- Format: NTSC
- Language: French
- Region: (US and Canada This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Studio: Aetios production
- Release Date: May 19 2004
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000195ZH8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #37,939 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
Solid story but few extras,
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This review is from: Fortier Saison 1 (DVD)
Fortier is an extremely engrossing French Canadian police series. The setting is a Montreal police unit who specialize in dealing with "psychiatric" cases. The premise gives the unit a wide range of crimes to deal with, needless to say that they don't deal with run of the mill crime. The acting by the regular cast is top notch and you can feel the how quickly they felt at ease with each other. I must mention that the acting by the various guess stars is first rate. Essentially so since the credibility of many of the episodes rely on their performance. The scripts are solid and subtle and the story is repleted with surprises without being overly gimmicky. There is an overall storyline or should I say mystery that involves the titular character of Anne Fortier that is slowly being developed through out the season and is unresolved as of the end of season one. This is balanced out by mini arc stories that last two episodes. The series is well plotted and populated by interesting and complex characters. Overall highly recommended. Now unfortunately the bad news there isn't much in extras and even some of the basics you expect to be on a DVD release are missing. For instance none of the episodes have chapter marks, which is extremely annoying and there are no select scene option. The only extra per say is the scripts for two episodes and the English sub titles. That said the English sub titles are well done and permit you to easily follow the story. My wife's French is iffy but because of the sub titles she had no trouble understanding and enjoying the series. My overall rating for the story is four stars but for the DVD set I have to knock off one star due to the lack of basic options and the sparse extras.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Thought-provoking, and I only speak English !,
By Edward (Arizona) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fortier Saison 1 (DVD)
I LOVE this series, even though I've only seen this w/ English ("Anglais") sub-titles (my only French was 2-yrs in High School, & that was a LONG time ago!). While the dialogue is fast, I can still follow it fine w/ sub-titles and still SEE the scenes as well.It's a "continuing story" ("night-time soap"), BUT story lines are resolved in approx 2 episodes, while new story line lead-ins are well done. The variety of sub-plots among the characters is entertaining and humerous. Rich in story! As mentioned by others, my only disappointment was missing "Scene-Selection" Feature in the Bonus Features.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bought the first 4 and waiting on Series 5,
By Christopher (Montreal, Quebec) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fortier Saison 1 (DVD)
Fantastic series. Well-written and acted, and quite fun with some of the recognizable Montreal scenery & culture as well. Much deserving of a wide audience, though the couple dubbed English episodes included on a later series disc make it clear that if you need the English version, which I do, let it be via subtitles, which are present on all the Series I-IV discs that I have, contrary to the other review here.
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