This Monday, July 1st, the third and final evening of the Rencontres Documentaires, during the Festival de la Cité, will screen the documentary “Françoise Hardy, une Icône” in the Cour d’honneur of the Château Comtal, in the presence of its director Mireille Dumas, whom we met. With the recent death of the singer, this event takes on a very special meaning.
This Monday 1is July, as part of the third evening of the Documentary Meetings, will be screened Françoise Hardy, an icondirected by Mireille Dumas, in the Cour d’honneur of the Château Comtal, at 10 p.m. The latter will be present for the occasion, alongside the actor Jean-Claude Dreyfus. This meeting, set for several weeks, has taken on a special dimension since June 11, and a post on social networks by her son Thomas Dutronc. In description, a serious sentence: “Mom is gone”. Françoise Hardy had just passed away, defeated by illness, after more than 20 years of fighting.
Mireille Dumas, a journalist who has worked for France 2, France 3 and RTL, bases her documentary on numerous testimonies collected over the years, and a wealth of archives. Jean-Marie Périer, who shared the singer’s life for four years, but also David Bowie who confides that he was in love with her, and Jacques Dutronc, the man of her life by his own admission, are full of praise for Françoise Hardy. Enough to bring us to meet her in the greatest intimacy. In this journey through time organized chronologically, starting from the yéyé to the present day, the author of All the boys and girls delivers with gentleness and sincerity. With all the grace that characterizes her, the documentary reviews the life of this icon, through her most beautiful songs.
She took a lot of distance from herself
Coming to Carcassonne for the three days of these Documentary Meetings, where she is also presenting this Saturday, July 29 Brigitte Bardot, the rebelMireille Dumas returned to the genesis of Françoise Hardy, an icona work whose content actually spans more than thirty years. “I met Françoise Hardy several times throughout my career, from 1985 to 2018she explains. I really wanted to link these successive exchanges”. A work praised by Françoise Hardy herself, of which Mireille Dumas retains the “unimaginable frankness”but also a humor that the general public did not necessarily suspect. “She was distancing herself a lot.”she assures.
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With the recent passing of this “icon”, this documentary, which had been scheduled for a long time, of course takes on a completely different significance. It is no coincidence that France 2 chose to rebroadcast it following the singer’s death. “It’s now a tribute”sums up Mireille Dumas, whose achievements are as many precious testimonies of people, famous or anonymous, who continue to perpetuate their memory once they have gone. A sort of vocation that the one who started out as a journalist has always nourished. “Even when I was little, I wanted to reach out to others. I always found that the lives of others were extraordinary: I wanted to experience lots of other lives!” Always without embellishment, in an authentic way.
In this case, we will find out this Monday 1is July who was really Françoise Hardy, far from the sometimes distorting prism of showbiz and the media. This evening, in the heart of the City of Carcassonne should certainly be a beautiful way to say goodbye to her.
