Légendes urbaines

A documentary series that deals with one of the most intriguing and fascinating phenomena in modern society: urban legends. The series shows how the rumour mill churns out an unlikely tale that contains a nugget of truth and then spreads it far and wide. Each episode focuses on a particular aspect of urban legends, inter-cutting four dramatic re-enactments with expert opinions from Canadian specialists in the field who explain the specifics of each legend: what kind of message or moral it conveys, its origins and evolution, its key features, its mechanisms, in short, the elements that create a trap for the gullible and the not-so gullible. Légendes urbaines is for anyone who has ever told an unlikely story that they heard from “a friend of a friend”…