We imagined Laurent Lafitte as a heavy-handed muddler and delivery boy. Ultimately the actor, director and former resident of the Comédie-Française willingly drops the mask. Cyrano on the stage, crooked prosecutor in the Counts of Monte Cristo or Lucien Guitry, the eternal love of the tragedienne, in Sarah Bernhardt, la divineit was multiple in 2024. Unsurprisingly, it is one of the New Year’s gifts.
Vibrant with current events, the Fourth Wall the bombshell director in the explosive and shattered Beirut of 1982. His ambition? Instill hope by climbing theAntigone by Jean Anouilh with actors from each community, Druze, Shiite, Maronite, Palestinian, Christian, etc. “It is not a film about theater, but about an approach, analyzes our interlocutor, that of bringing people together. It could have been done through sport. This is about art, and its powerlessness in the face of drama.” Lebanon, discovered during filming in 2022, shook him. If he promises to return there, he denounces “the Western poeticization of chaos”. “I had friends who said to me: “You
