''La Dernière Vague'' (English: ''The Last Wave'') is a 2019 French television series, from Kwaï Television, Paris, in French with six episodes.

Premise

The setting is the coast of

Landes ''Landes'', or ''Lanas'' in Gascon, means moorland or heath. ''Landes'' and ''Lanas'' come from the Latin ''plānus'' meaning “‘flat, even, level, plain’”. They are therefore cognate with the English plain (and plane), the Spanish word '' ...

in southwestern France. Eleven surfers are lost in freak weather connected with an unusual cloud. They return, but with mysterious changes and unexplained powers.

Production

The series was filmed around

Contis Contis is a village, part of the commune in France, commune of Saint-Julien-en-Born, in the Landes (department), Landes ''département in France, département'' of Ordinal directions, southwest France, on the Atlantic Ocean, which has an extensive ...

, near St Julien-en-Born, where there is a distinctive inland

lighthouse A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of physical structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and to serve as a beacon for navigational aid, for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways. Lighthouses mar ...

that features as a significant plot point.

International broadcasts

A version given the English title of ''The Last Wave'', dubbed into German by Leonine Distribution ( de), Munich, was broadcast by ZDFneo from 26 June 2020. Another version, also using ''The Last Wave'' title, keeping the French audio with

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s in English, began on 25 July 2020 on

BBC 4 BBC Four is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It was launched on 2 March 2002

. Ed Power, writing for

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, summarized it thusly: "supernatural clouds and sexy surfers". This version also started streaming in Australia on

SBS On Demand SBS is a national public television network in Australia. Launched on 24 October 1980, it is the responsibility of SBS's television division, and is available nationally. In 2018, SBS had a 7.7% audience share. As of 2022, SBS is the lowest ...

in 2021.{{cite web , title=The Last Wave , url=https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/program/the-last-wave, publisher=SBS, accessdate=3 March 2021

References

External links

La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave)'' at IMDb

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