Fortunes (2011) User Reviews

It's still that integration thing, sophisticated, love it!

[enum68 · 9/10 · 5 April 2011]

Tracked. That is exactly what I felt after watching 6 of 8 episodes. In the middle of France, in the middle-sized city of Tours, brothers Brahim and Fathi, second generation immigrants from North Africa, try to handle their real estate agency together with the help of their mates Driss and Mike. Their greatest rival in business seems to be a young Chinese, but "3 Arabs and 1 Gypsy" who'd been grown up with the movies of Quentin Tarantino prove hard that they will be finally the "Cool" .. in family things not all worked pretty well for Brahim and Helena. Her deep catholic Portuguese parents compete permanently against Brahim's family for the spiritual hail of their grandson ignoring their own children's declared intentions .. it's at the moment one of the best European melting pot series, spiced with a pinch of the Sopranos, kind humor, which could even take place in Munich, Bavaria for example, casts replaced by Croatians, Albanians an South Italians for example .. whoever wants to have a look at today's urban life on the old continent where roots and traditions become more and more relative - here's a multicultural masterpiece, distinctively shot and brilliantly narrated.