Camille Moretti from 20 Minutes: a worried take on Duanju
- Sanjorge Guillaume
- Nov 16
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 20
The article published by 20 Minutes and signed by Camille Moretti is part of a now well-established "Duanjuphobic" trend: following the president of the CNC (National Center for Cinema and the Moving Image), some French media outlets, such as France Inter and Le Figaro , are approaching the phenomenon of vertical mini-series through the lens of mistrust, even suspicion. The format is becoming an object of concern rather than a subject for analysis. Nothing new, then: the same anxiety, the same defensive reading, the same inability to imagine what an ambitious French creation could be in this emerging field.
To date, only Konbini journalist Delphine Rivet has truly posed the question on its proper scale: what to do with this format, how to invest in it, how to elevate it? Her article proposed demanding strong, intelligent or emotional works, and not reducing duanju to its excesses visible on social platforms.
It is precisely this void that duanju.news attempts to fill: to show that another model is possible. A model that analyzes the format rather than fears it, that seeks creation rather than caricature, and that considers duanju not as a cultural threat but as a space where French fiction could finally dare to do something new.
Read the 20 Minutes article by Camille Moretti: Link
Article written by Guillaume Sanjorge
